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Old 11-20-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Are you sure you stated the requirement correctly. By definition, any file that exists in a directory has to be older than "now", even if it is still open for writing. But here is a way to find files older then a certain time/date - use
Code:
touch -t yyyymmmddhhmmss dummy
find /path/to/files ! -newer dummy -type f