trying to find a path/file...

bruce bedouglas at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 10 02:41:46 UTC 2009


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...

thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:34 PM
To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: trying to find a path/file...


On 09Jul2009 19:27, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
| trying to figure out how to craft a find cmd to find a given file in a
dir,
| that is changed more than x mins in the past
|
| i thought i could use a combination of find, wholename, and cmin... but
| those isn't giving me what i'm looking for... it's not returning any
| files...
|
| thought i could do a pipe, but that didn't work either
|
| i thought
|  find . /foo/*.txt -cmin -10 would work, but that's not using the change
| "cmin" attribute...
|
| so i've also tried
|  find . -cmin -10 -wholename '/foo/*.txt'  with no luck as well...

-10 is _less_ than 10 minutes in the past. Sure you don't mean +10?

Also, why -wholename (which I don't use myself much, since it's
GNU-specific I think)?

If you leave off the "-cmin -10", does the file show up at all?

What do these do?

  find /foo/*.txt -ls
  find /foo/*.txt -cmin +10 -ls
  find /foo/*.txt -cmin -10 -ls

Don't forget that while you _usually_ point find at directories, it can
be pointed at files too.

Also consider:

  find /foo -depth 1 -name '*.txt' -ls
  find /foo -depth 1 -name '*.txt' -cmin +10 -ls

Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

Expect all you want no one can force me to say anything intelligent.    -
Babs

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