which files have modified in the last few days ?
 

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

hello,
you could use "find"

Thanks that was helpful.

Varun

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

find dir -type f -ctime number_of_days

how do you specify ' -type '

Thanks again

Varun

-type is an option

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