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Old 03-13-2009
find recently modified/ updated file

hi gurus,

i would like to know how can i find logs files which were recently modified or updated? Smilie

using this command?

find . -name "*.log" -mtime ??

so what should i put for mtime?

thanks.

wee
# 2  
Old 03-13-2009
I don't think using find command will satisfy your requirement unless you want to recurse into directories.

If all the log files are located in the same directory, then use the below command. This will list the latest 10 files in ascending order with the latest file at the end.

If you want more log files to be displayed, use tail -<number> to display as many files as you want.

Code:
ls -lrt | tail

HTH,Smilie

Regards,

Praveen
# 3  
Old 03-13-2009
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Originally Posted by lweegp
hi gurus,

i would like to know how can i find logs files which were recently modified or updated? Smilie

using this command?

find . -name "*.log" -mtime ??

so what should i put for mtime?

thanks.

wee
If you want stuff from within the last hour, use -1. If you want stuff less than five hours old, use -5. If you want to control the time by minutes instead of hours, use mmin instead.
# 4  
Old 03-15-2009
thanks shawn for the infor. i think that should work...let me try it out.
# 5  
Old 03-15-2009
hi shawn,

what if i need to check which files have been modify or updated over the past few days? do i use -mtime +72 for files which have been modified for the past 3 days etc?
# 6  
Old 03-15-2009
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Originally Posted by lweegp
hi shawn,

what if i need to check which files have been modify or updated over the past few days? do i use -mtime +72 for files which have been modified for the past 3 days etc?
The opposite -- +72 will give you things modified more than 72 hours ago, -72 would be less than 72 hours.
# 7  
Old 03-16-2009
ahh...yes should have guess its a - than a +. this should work now. thanks shawn!
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