Help in find command

ZAMO · 09-17-2008, 03:10 AM

Hi all,

When I try to find the files which are a day old, am using the following find command.

Code:

find /directory -ctime -1

I got the output as

Code:

/directory
/directory/findoutfile

I just want the files only of 1 day old and not the directory. How can i do it ?

Thanks

pixellany · 09-17-2008, 03:48 AM

"man" is your friend. Enter "man find" and look at the "-type" test.

bob_man_uk · 09-17-2008, 04:04 AM

when you say you want to show the files not the directory, you want to show just the file on its own IE instad of /directory/file just file or stop the first /directory being listed?

ZAMO · 09-17-2008, 04:07 AM

I want to stop the first /directory being listed

pixellany · 09-17-2008, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZAMO

I want to stop the first /directory being listed

And you have, of course, already tried the -type test I suggested.....

ZAMO · 09-17-2008, 04:43 AM

Thank You Pixellary,

I got it

Code:

find /directory -ctime -1 -type f

chrism01 · 09-17-2008, 09:16 PM

Just FYI

Three fields in the inode structure contain the last access, change, and modification times: atime, ctime, and mtime. The atime field is updated each time the pointer to the file's data blocks is followed and the file's data is read. The mtime field is updated each time the file's data changes. The ctime field is updated each time the file's inode changes. The ctime is not creation time; there is no way under standard Unix to find a file's creation time.

Note the last sentence there(!)