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

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 9/29/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
>> tried all the variations, not that it is the exact command. I was also
>> very pissed off when I had to discover that the "find manual page" isn't
>> very correct. It never made clear that "-ctime 3" means "now plus 3
>> days" and "-ctime -3" means "now minus 3 days".
>
> Well the man page does have this paragraph in it (emphasis added):
>
>       If you are using find in an environment  where  security  is 
> important
>       (for example if you are using it to seach directories that are
> writable
>       by other users), you should read the "Security Considerations" 
> chapter
>       of the findutils documentation, which is called Finding Files
> and comes
>       with findutils.   **That document also includes a  lot  more 
> detail  and
>       discussion  than  this  manual  page,  so you may find it a more
> useful
>       source of information.**
>
> So you can get better documentation from the info pages by running
> "info find.info".  If you want specifics on the time options:
>
> # info find.info "Finding Files" "Time"
>
> BTW, in programmer speak, "now plus 3 days" would be interpreted as 3
> days in the future...which is _not_ how find works.  To try and
> clarify:
>
> -mtime 2  -> files modified between 48 and 72 hours ago.
> -mtime -2 -> files modified in the last 2 days...the period between 0
> and 48 hours ago.
> -mtime +2 -> files modified more than 48 hours ago
>
> HTH,
> -Richard

Point taken! Thanks for the clarification, Richard!


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Best regards,
Daniel


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