search by modified date - Shell Programming and Scripting

kotasateesh · #1 (**permalink**) 01-03-2007

Hello,
How can i search for all the files in a particular directory which are not updated from past 5 days.

Thanks,
Sateesh

maheshwin · #2 (**permalink**) 01-03-2007

use the following option

find / -mtime -5 -print

kotasateesh · #3 (**permalink**) 01-03-2007

Thanks for your reply. how can i get these file in to an array so that i can zip them.

maheshwin · #4 (**permalink**) 01-03-2007

u can send the stream into tar using the pipe

find / -mtime -5 -print | tar cvf test.tar

pharos467 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

to find files in a particular dir. use this command -

find . -type f -mtime +5 -print

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