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Old 07-21-2008
how to touch a file with prev time stamp
i want to find the files which are modified in last 30 to 120 minutes

i am using "find . -mmin +30 -mmin -120 "

it is giving me the error

find: bad option -mmin
find: path-list predicate-list

can somebody help me out .

Thank you
# 2  
Old 07-21-2008
The -mmin option is a GNU find extension. Install GNU find if it's available for your system, or use e.g. the find2perl tool as a workaround.
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Old 07-21-2008
dont we have any other command to find the files which are modified in last 1 to 2 hours.??
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Old 07-21-2008
A search for "find mmin" brings up some promising threads from these forums. This is a frequently recurring topic so I believe you should find some useful pointers there. In particular, https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...d-command.html and find command using -mmin param should be helpful.
# 5  
Old 07-21-2008
Use -mtime option with find.
example
find /path/ -name {filenames} -mtime {}

- nilesh
# 6  
Old 07-21-2008
I have replied to this question (with perl script) previously, here is the link to my reply:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...#post302215096

You can change the values of these variables, for ur question:
my $thirty_mins_in_secs = 30*60; # to 3600
my $sixty_mins_in_secs = 60*60; # to 2*3600

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