My find command isn't finding with -mmin #
Martin McCormick
martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Fri Jan 28 13:57:13 UTC 2011
Ian Coetzee writes:
> find . -name "*" -daystart -mmin -120 -print
>
> There should be a "-" in front of the 120, as per:
>
> Numeric arguments can be specified as
>
> +n for greater than n,
>
> -n for less than n,
>
> n for exactly n.
Oh, yes. I forgot that part. Thank you. I also discovered that
-daystart needs to go after the -mmin # option. When I first
tried it, it still did not work so I tried +120 which would get
everything older than 2 hours and it found all kinds of stuff as
this was the top of my home directory. So I tried -14400 which
is 24 hours worth of minutes and it then did find the newer
files. putting -daystart after -mmin -120 makes it all work
perfectly. This is a great help.
Martin McCormick
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