trying to find a path/file...

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 07:25:58 UTC 2009


2009/7/9 bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net>:
> never mind!!
>
> arrggh.. figured it out... you can use the path, followed by the time, and
> the name...
>
> kind of like...
>
> find /foo  -name "*.tz* -cmin -200
>
> which gets the targeted file...

find can be very picky about the syntax. The flag -name matches the
file name exactly, so matching a file can be tricky. It however
accepts file globs, so something like '-name \*.txt' is usually
effective. Its safer to escape the asterisk. You can use other options
like -mmin or -amin to find by modification time or access time.

find with -exec or find -print0 with xargs -0 are my favourite set of
commands, after all find forms the backend for almost any search
functionality in most *nix apps (e.g. search in Nautilus) :)

-- 
Suvayu

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