Hi...when multiple subdirectories are under a main directory, how can I find only new files i.e from last 1 are two days modified or new files . Hope someone will definetely help this.

Regards
Niharika

find will help you to search files

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As you said I did as "find /home/my_home_dir -mtime +1 -print", But it is giving around 1442 files information which is also included .Mozilla, .thunderbird, .thumbnail, .metacity files, I don't want these files info. So how can I exculde these hidden directories info, And what does +1 means in this command? Is it since last one day?

kirukan, "-print" is not necessary.

You can exclude these files by having ./* as your search path:
You can omit -print as it's used by default.
The +n means the files are at least n*24 hours old: with n=1, it's at least (more than) 24 hours old, or at least 2 days old.

Is that what you want?

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Yes Mr. Alex,
Please refer the following thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...olders-208169/

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Note that the solution I mentioned only excludes the 1st-level entries, meaning the hidden directories and files in the main search directory won't be included.
So to exclude ".mozilla", ".metacity" and so forth, you use what I wrote before:
This is effectively searching everything non-hidden in the main directory.

However, if you have hidden entries INSIDE the non-hidden, 1st-level entries, they will still be listed.
To exclude hidden matches (if you don't want hidden files to be shown in your search query), you can additionally use the -not -name modifier:

Yes you are correct, But now if I used "find ./* -mtime +1", But it is showing all old files older than a day, but excuding hidden directories.
But I need new files of last one or two days. So I ran "-1" instead of "+1" & found only new files which are belongs to since last 24 hours.
Anyway Thank you very much for your kind help.

Hey..Thank you very much for giving this useful link.

You can always specify -2 to have at most 2 days, if you want:
When you use minus/dash '-', the logic is "at most", and when you use plus '+', it's "at least"...