Finding files modified n minutes ago

tucs_123 · 10-05-2009, 08:45 AM

Hello friends,

Can you please help me with "find" command to list down the files modified/created say 10 minutes ago?

I tried below command on AIX but it didnt work.

>find / -mmin -10
>find: bad option -mmin

Also I don't want to display the message ": Permission denied" while displaying the files.

e.g.

>find / -mtime -1

output:

find: cannot chdir to </lost+found> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </audit> : Permission denied

Any suggestion would be a great help!!

wfh · 10-05-2009, 09:00 AM

echo > mytest
find . -mmin -10

...that should show you 'mytest'

tucs_123 · 10-06-2009, 07:50 AM

Thanks friend for the reply,but the command is not working on AIX 5.2.

One more question,can anyone help me to display the result of find command with time of modification?

say,

>find / -mtime -1 -print 2>/dev/null

it should display list like below.

Oct 06 2009 ALEXTA
Oct 06 2009 MOBHTR

Generally the result is as below:

say,

>find / -mtime -1 -print 2>/dev/null

ALEXTA
MOBHTR

pixellany · 10-06-2009, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tucs_123

Thanks friend for the reply,but the command is not working on AIX 5.2.

I works here (Linux). Start by reading through the man page on your system for "find". Perhaps the syntax is different......

AlucardZero · 10-06-2009, 08:26 AM

find / -mtime -1 -exec ls -l '{}' \; 2>/dev/null

baznz · 10-09-2009, 12:59 AM

The problem with -exec is unless you do -type f you gonna traverse directories that match find criteria, which will then give you a list of its contents which may not match the criteria. So you going to get incorrect results.

find / -mtime -1 -ls 2> /dev/null