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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting files older than few hours Post 302503831 by homeboy on Friday 11th of March 2011 11:28:05 PM
Old 03-12-2011
first,you should know the time you want to compare is "modify time","access time" or "changed time".Command "find" gives some options to do things like that.
 

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