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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find files newer than x days Post 302492609 by ezhilan2307 on Tuesday 1st of February 2011 02:15:40 AM
Old 02-01-2011
Try this :

Code:
find . -name "*.dat" -mtime -2 -print |awk -F/ '{print $NF}'

Where *.dat --> you can give the file extension which you want

and -2 is 2 days.. so it will list the filenames which are modified/newer in last two days.. you can change this with your "x" value here.

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 02-01-2011 at 09:48 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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lchage(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 lchage(8)

NAME
lchage - Display or change user password policy SYNOPSIS
lchage [OPTION]... user DESCRIPTION
Displays or allows changing password policy of user. OPTIONS
-d, --date=days Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970. -E, --expire=days Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration. -i, --interactive Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. -I, --inactive=days Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password). -l, --list Only list current user's policy and make no changes. -m, --mindays=days Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 to disable this checking. -M, --maxdays=days Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking. -W, --warndays=days Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password). EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. libuser Jan 12 2005 lchage(8)
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