On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 18:28, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime Today, NMK cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > > How do I find the list of all files modified since yesterday? I know one > > option would be > > find / -mtime N > > But this is a bit confusing. Should N be 1 or -1? Is there a better way? > > N should be 1. This is the best way, it should not be confusing. > > Remember that 'difference' can never be negative. The difference > between two quantities is always equal to the larger minus the smaller. > > find / -mtime 1d would be more explicit.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]$ find / -mtime 1d find: invalid argument `1d' to `-mtime' Simply using 1 and omitting the d works. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -ld `find /root -mtime 1` -rw------- 1 root root 1331010 Jan 5 22:43 /root/evolution/local/Blug-Prog/mbox -rw------- 1 root root 54323 Jan 5 22:44 /root/evolution/local/Blug-Prog/mbox.ev-summary -rw------- 1 root root 102400 Jan 5 22:44 /root/evolution/local/Blug-Prog/mbox.ibex.index -rw------- 1 root root 180492 Jan 5 22:44 /root/evolution/local/Blug-Prog/mbox.ibex.index.data -rw------- 1 root root 211968 Jan 6 15:23 /root/evolution/local/Blug-Tech/mbox.ibex.index -rw------- 1 root root 618544 Jan 6 15:23 /root/evolution/local/Blug-Tech/mbox.ibex.index.data <output snipped> But why is it showing files that are modified on 5th Jan, ie day-before-yesterday? As per the find man page, it should show files modified N*24 hours ago, thats 24 hours ago (6th Jan. to 7th Jan.). Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
