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# 1  
Old 06-14-2010
search for date of modification

hi member.
i want to know all file in the system
which the last date of modification = 14-06-2010
for example
what can i do
# 2  
Old 06-14-2010
find command can help you

option of your interest : -mmin and -mtime
# 3  
Old 06-14-2010
thanks for your command
i found option -mtime
but i didn't found option -mmin
Code:
root # find . -mtime 0

the got the result files which has the last date of modification is today

that is very good

did you know if i want to list files which is the last of modification is
withing the last 50 day
how can i do that

Last edited by xxmasrawy; 06-14-2010 at 10:40 AM..
# 4  
Old 06-14-2010
Also, some versions of "find" support -newerXY:

E.g.:

Code:
find / -name "*.*" ! -newermt 2010-06-15 -newermt 2010-06-14 -print

# 5  
Old 06-21-2010
Code:
find / -type f -name "thefilenames" -mtime -50 -ls

this will list all those files modified after 50th day from today.

Last edited by Scott; 06-21-2010 at 05:15 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
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