On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > Hello list, > > Just to expose my ignorance again, would someone lift my blinkers > please? I'm recovering from an infection and my brain is stuck. > > It's time to start pruning old stuff from the website I run, which has > 2200 files in 200 directories. > > I'm trying to find old images like this: > find . -iname \*.jpg -exec ls '-cdl' {} \; | cut -d \ -f 5-10
It's obvious how that command finds old images. Can you explain what it's supposed to do? > Is there a simple way to do this? Ideally I'd like a chronologically > ordered list of the files. Do you want a chronologically ordered list, or do you want to find files older than a certain age? If the former, try this: find . -iname '*.jpg' | xargs ls -lt If the latter, read the 'find' man page and look for the -mtime test. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My nose feels like a at bad Ronald Reagan movie ... gmail.com