Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

maxim wexler wrote:
>> find has many options related to searching by time
>> (hours, 
>> minutes, etc) and you can select by atime, ctime or
>> mtime. It's 
>> all in the man page
>>     
>
> I can't get it to work. I used -ctime, -mtime, -mmin.
> The files were created on the 26th of this month using
> abcde. All the other files in the dir are at least two
> weeks old, so I gave it 72(hours) then 3(days) to grab
> everything in the last three days then 96 and 4 just
> to make sure. I gave it mmin with 4810(72*60 minutes)
> and 5760(90*60). Every time nothing happens; nothing
> is copied and no error message is generated. I gave it
> relative dirs and absolute dirs. I used -type f and
> -fstype <file-type>. Nothing. 
>
> -mw
>
>
>
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I believe the right syntax is:

find /path/dir -type f -ctime -3

This should mean "show all files created for the last 3 days".

Use  "-3" not "3"

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel


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