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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problem with find command when used with mtime Post 302156309 by Perderabo on Monday 7th of January 2008 06:59:10 PM
Old 01-07-2008
First "-atime +14" selects files whose last access was more than 14 days ago. See https://www.unix.com/tips-tutorials/2...ime-atime.html


Next consider a set of files like this:
/toplevel
/toplevel/dir1
/toplevel/dir1/file1
/toplevel/dir1/file2

When you put files in dir1, this modifies dir1 but not toplevel so a
find /toplevel -mtime +14
will eventually find /toplevel. So then you do a "rm -rf /toplevel" the entire directory hierarchy is removed. "ls -ltr /toplevel" will report on the entire hierarchy as well. The find command is already scanning the directory structure. You don't want to use -r on the commands spawned from it in most cases. Even without -r, ls will, by default, show the contents of a directory unless you use -d with it.
 

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find

find(n) 							    [incr Tcl]								   find(n)

NAME

       find - search for classes and objects

SYNOPSIS

       find option ?arg arg ...?

DESCRIPTION

       The find command is used to find classes and objects that are available in the current interpreter.  Classes and objects are reported first
       in the active namespace, then in all other namespaces in the interpreter.

       The option argument determines what action is carried out by the command.  The legal options (which may be abbreviated) are:

       find classes ?pattern?
	      Returns a list of [incr Tcl] classes.  Classes in the current namespace are listed first, followed by classes in	all  other  names-
	      paces in the interpreter.  If the optional pattern is specified, then the reported names are compared using the rules of the "string
	      match" command, and only matching names are reported.

	      If a class resides in the current namespace context, this command reports its simple name--without any qualifiers.  However, if  the
	      pattern  contains  :: qualifiers, or if the class resides in another context, this command reports its fully-qualified name.  There-
	      fore, you can use the following command to obtain a list where all names are fully-qualified: find classes ::*

       find objects ?pattern? ?-class className? ?-isa className?
	      Returns a list of [incr Tcl] objects.  Objects in the current namespace are listed first, followed by objects in	all  other  names-
	      paces in the interpreter.  If the optional pattern is specified, then the reported names are compared using the rules of the "string
	      match" command, and only matching names are reported.  If the optional "-class" parameter is specified, this list is  restricted	to
	      objects  whose  most-specific class is className.  If the optional "-isa" parameter is specified, this list is further restricted to
	      objects having the given className anywhere in their heritage.

	      If an object resides in the current namespace context, this command reports its simple name--without any	qualifiers.   However,	if
	      the  pattern  contains  ::  qualifiers,  or if the object resides in another context, this command reports its fully-qualified name.
	      Therefore, you can use the following command to obtain a list where all names are fully-qualified: find objects ::*

KEYWORDS

       class, object, search, import

itcl									3.0								   find(n)
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