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Old 04-09-2014
Get filelist in a folder which is created in last x hours
Hi ,

I am looking for some help in getting the list of files matching some pattern in a folder and those were created in last X hours.


Please help.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 04-09-2014
Code:
find /user/home/log -type f -name "*.log" -mmin -$((X * 60))

you can replace 'X' with number of hours, "/user/home/log" with the directory and "*.log" with your required file format
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