Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:36:39 -0400 > From: Tom Buskey > > >> find . -mtime 60 > > > > > >Doesn't mtime's arg mean that many days ago? So you're asking find > > >to mention files 60 days old, I think. Is that what you intended? > > > > I actually should have said, "So you're asking find to

Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> find . -mtime 60 > > > >Doesn't mtime's arg mean that many days ago? So you're asking find > >to mention files 60 days old, I think. Is that what you intended? > > I actually should have said, "So

Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 12:10 -0400, Alan Johnson wrote: > I think my brain is melting. Any find gurus out there that answer > this question: what stupid thing am I doing wrong here? > ajohn...@ajohnson-laptop:~/performance/wslavedb1$ ls -lt | tail -n 5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 ajohnson ajohnson 222305 2008-

Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Alan, You ARE going to hate yourself. "find" probably found them, but you have to tell find to *do* something. try find . -mtime 60 -print You may now kick yourself. :-) md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: mad...@li.org 80 Amherst St. V

Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> find . -mtime 60 > >Doesn't mtime's arg mean that many days ago? So you're asking find >to mention files 60 days old, I think. Is that what you intended? I actually should have said, "So you're asking find to mention files last modified 60 days ago" __

Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
> find . -mtime 60 Doesn't mtime's arg mean that many days ago? So you're asking find to mention files 60 days old, I think. Is that what you intended? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/l

find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread Alan Johnson
I think my brain is melting. Any find gurus out there that answer this question: what stupid thing am I doing wrong here? ajohn...@ajohnson-laptop:~/performance/wslavedb1$ ls -lt | tail -n 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 ajohnson ajohnson 222305 2008-10-01 12:00 2008-10-01_0800.vmstat.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ajohnson ajo