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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command question Post 302559148 by jonnyd on Monday 26th of September 2011 10:11:04 AM
Old 09-26-2011
find command question
Hi all,

I want to use find to 'find' files older than a file.

The command I have come up with so far is
Code:
find . -type f ! -newer filename -print | grep -v filename

If I dont use the -v then the filename is included in the output

is there a better way of formulating this command without using the | grep -v t the end and not using mtime etc..?

Thanks,

jd
Last edited by Scott; 09-26-2011 at 11:14 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

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