Comments on: Find Files By Access, Modification Date / Time Under Linux or UNIX

By: Evgeni

Evgeni — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:50:24 +0000

If a file is moved to trash bin, is its ctime modified ?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:50:43 +0000

mkdir -p Red/Hat

By: Prashant

Prashant — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:51:15 +0000

good one

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:39:09 +0000

How do i find a file based on the date input i give and move that file, a file with date before that and after that to a directory using find.
For Example: I want to find a file “identity_*” last modified on 17th Aug moved to a directory along with one modified on 18th Aug, 19th Aug.

Any inputs are highly appreciated

By: rana

rana — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:05:31 +0000

plz tell me command for following :-

find all the files in current folder with modification time (modified in last 6 hrs and not modified in last 4hrs) with their name starting with k and they must be regular files and not directories finally delete them..

By: vara

vara — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:40:00 +0000

i want find the files created or modified in particular date

By: bhageerathan

bhageerathan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:18:14 +0000

very helpful…:) thank you

By: Amol

Amol — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:01:10 +0000

find / -name “*.mp3″ -atime +01 -type f

use this command , it will surely work

By: Amol

Amol — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:56:57 +0000

mkdir Red
cd Red
touch Hat

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:23:52 +0000

I have a new Linux server. CentOS 5.5. I want to know if their is any way to see exactly what files are added or changed or updated after I install a program. How can I do this?

By: Thabiso

Thabiso — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:18:54 +0000

Hi,

How do I list the files of only today’s date and dump them into some output file?

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:03:36 +0000

This should do the trick -

find . -type f -iname ‘HSTD*’ -daystart -mtime 1 -exec cp {} /path/to new/dir/ \;

Nick

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:56:36 +0000

-rw-rw-rw- 1 qmaster qmaster 294520 Aug 16 00:35 HSTD.191.807
-rw-rw-rw- 1 qmaster qmaster 525118 Aug 17 00:56 HSTD.191.808
-rw-rw-rw- 1 qmaster qmaster 698575 Aug 18 01:42 HSTD.191.809
-rw-rw-rw- 1 qmaster qmaster 829239 Aug 19 01:25 HSTD.191.810

I would like to copy to a directory one of the following files by using today’s date minus one. In other words when I execute my script I want yesterdays file.

any help would be appreciated.
John

By: R Duke

R Duke — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:57:27 +0000

@sowya: to create a file ./Red/Hat when the directory “Red” doesn’t exist yet, use mkdir and touch:

mkdir Red
touch Red/Hat

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:14:17 +0000

Please use the following command :

mkdir Red

cd Red

Red/>mkdir Hat

cd Hat

Red/Hat>

Please let me know if this is clear

Thanks,
Prashanthini

By: rduke15

rduke15 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:15:28 +0000

If you need a specific date range many days ago, it would be boring to calculate how many days ago it was exactly. Here is an example looking for files modified between May 9 2008 and May 13 2008, in /home:

touch –date “2008-05-09″ /tmp/after
touch –date “2008-05-13″ /tmp/before
find /home/ -type f -newer /tmp/after -not -newer /tmp/before

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:07:45 +0000

I’ve got this in my delicious bookmarks and use it often, thank you. For some reason on one of my computers I have to leave the word -print off the command or I get a message about paths must precede expression. Still…thank you for the page.

By: ABhik

ABhik — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:28:46 +0000

@Mike – Replace ” by ‘ and try.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:02:02 +0000

the commands in the examples are not working for me, im trying to get the times a particular word file has been accessed on my computer in the last week so i tried to use the -atime example to see if it was accessed one day ago, i typed this into terminal:

find /home/you -iname “*.mp3″ -atime 01 -type -f

it didnt work, can anyone help me?

By: Masonite2009

Masonite2009 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:50:06 +0000

I would like to display the date modified, the owner of the file, and the file size of the files that I have found using the find command. Is there a way to do that?