which files have modified in the last few days ?

varun_saa · 03-08-2007, 01:23 AM

Hello,

Iam on mandriva 2006.

How to find which files have been modified
in the last few days ?

Thanks

Varun

dannystaple · 03-08-2007, 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by varun_saa

Hello,

Iam on mandriva 2006.

How to find which files have been modified
in the last few days ?

Thanks

Varun

In a single directory, ls -rlt will do it. I normally add the -h flag too so I get human formatted file sizes.

Cheers,
Danny

ygloo · 03-08-2007, 02:08 AM

hello,
you could use "find"

Code:

find dir -type f -ctime number_of_days

varun_saa · 03-10-2007, 04:44 AM

Thanks that was helpful.

Varun

dannystaple · 03-10-2007, 06:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ygloo

hello,
you could use "find"

Code:

find dir -type f -ctime number_of_days

Ygloos method has the advantage (I think) that it will recurse into subdirectories, which mine wont. My version will actually list all files in a directory, but it sorts them by date and time.

Danny

varun_saa · 03-10-2007, 07:46 AM

find dir -type f -ctime number_of_days

how do you specify ' -type '

Thanks again

Varun

Micro420 · 03-10-2007, 10:34 AM

-type is an option

Example using find:

Code:

find /home -type f -ctime 5 -print

Find a regular file in /home that has been changed in the past 5 days and print out the full path results