On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 16:09 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:08:31 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo: > > I finally got some results with: > > find -maxdepth 5 -atime +10 -name \*.odt > > Putting the escape in front of the * is necessary unless you quote the > pattern, but doing '*.odt' produced no results. The escape worked, > however. > > But the problem is that the above command delivered every .odt file on > my computer, which is many hundreds, if not thousands. If I change it > to just 10 (which is what the man page says to do), instead of +10 then > I get > > find: `./.cache/dconf': Permission denied > > Whatever that means.
It means permission was denied. :) It's usually a good idea to tell 'find' where to start looking, as several people have noted in their examples. The basic pattern for 'find' is find WHERE_DO_I_START WHAT_DO_I_LOOK_FOR WHAT_DO_I_DO_WITH_IT personally, I find -mtime to be generally more useful than the other time specifiers. -- David Fleck <david.fl...@mchsi.com> _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
