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04-13-2006, 08:57 AM	#1
davholla Member Registered: Jun 2003 Location: London Distribution: Linux Mint 13 Maya Posts: 729 Rep:	Search only the last 24 hours files How do I modify the ls command so that it only returns files created in the last 24 hours ?

04-13-2006, 09:09 AM	#2
macemoneta Senior Member Registered: Jan 2005 Location: Manalapan, NJ Distribution: Fedora x86 and x86_64, Debian PPC and ARM, Android Posts: 4,593 Blog Entries: 2 Rep:	You can use find. For example: touch -t 04130200 datefile find /path/ -newer datefile -print rm datefile This will find files created after 04/13 at 02:00.

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