[SOLVED] Find for files older than 12 hours

anon091 · 06-11-2013, 08:08 PM

I know how to do a find for files that are older than one day with
-mtime +1
but is there a way to do it for files that are older than 12 hours? I need to do some mv's in a faster period than 1 day.

anon091 · 06-11-2013, 08:11 PM

-cmin 720

sorry! I must have scrolled too fast in man the first time

TobiSGD · 06-11-2013, 08:43 PM

If you use zsh instead of bash you don't need to use find at all for this job. For example, to find and mv all files recursively under the current directory that are older than 12 hours you would just do

Code:

mv **/*(.mh-12) /destination/path

More info on that can be found here: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Relea...name-Expansion

anon091 · 06-12-2013, 09:40 AM

Very cool! didn't even know that existed.

schneidz · 06-12-2013, 10:15 AM

Code:

touch -t 201306120500 rjo98.time
find /path/to/dir ! -newer rjo98.time

David the H. · 06-13-2013, 10:44 AM

gnu find now makes the above even easier, with it's -newerxy option.

Code:

find /startdir ! -newermt "-12 hours" -print

Use 'm' in the 'x' position to test for mtime, and 't' in the 'y' position to compare it against a given time stamp. The time stamp can be a relative string in the same way as date's -d option.