ctime is not modification time, it marks the time when a file was created or had its inode changed -- which includes things like renames, moves, and chmod. mtime is modification time.
Just reverse the logic with ! instead of trying to put negative values of time into find; negative values will either match everything or nothing depending on the exact logic involved...
I am trying to figure out the syntax to use find to remove files older than 30 minutes. I know that this will work for files 1 day old, but cannot seem to trim the time down to 30 minutes.
find /path/to/file -ctime +1 -exec rm -f {} \; (1 Reply)
:D i have a slight problem and would appreciate if someone could clarify the confusion.. i use find alot and so far i have done ok.. but it just struck me a couple of days ago that I am not quite sure what the difference between the modification time and the change time as in ctime and mtime and... (3 Replies)
Unix keeps 3 timestamps for each file: mtime, ctime, and atime. Most people seem to understand atime (access time), it is when the file was last read. There does seem to be some confusion between mtime and ctime though. ctime is the inode change time while mtime is the file modification time. ... (2 Replies)
hi, in trying to maintain your directories, one needs to do some housekeeping like removing old files. the tool "find" comes in handy. but how would you decide which option to use when it comes to, say, deleting files that are older than 5 days?
mtime - last modified
atime - last accessed... (4 Replies)
startdate="2012_07_04-16:14:4"
path1="/home/drdos/sample"
days=0
find $path1 -name "*$startdate*" > teste.txt
while
do
find $path1 -name "*.zip" ctime $days > teste.txt
days=`expr $days + 1`
done
echo " Files that are near the string u search are on teste.txt"Hi to... (2 Replies)
When I use the command find "/abc/xyz" -type f -ctime +30 getting the error as
find:"/abc/xyz /lost+found: Permission Denied"
I tired find "/abc/xyz" -type d \( ! lost+found \) -type f -ctime +30 The error is
find: paths must precede expression Usage: find
Tried find "/abc/xyz"... (1 Reply)
The problem is this one. I tar and gzip files on remote server
Code:
find . -ctime -1 | tar -cvf transfer_dmz_start_daily.tar *${Today}*.*;
Command
Code:
find . -ctime -1
Doesn't find files without extension
Code:
.csv .txt
I have to collect all files for current... (1 Reply)
The problem is this one. I tar and gzip files on remote server
find . -ctime -1 | tar -cvf transfer_dmz_start_daily.tar *${Today}*.*;
Command
find . -ctime -1
Doesn't find files without extension
.csv .txt
I have to collect all files for current day, when the program... (1 Reply)
Have you tried running the command below? On the same RHEl 6.8 or 6.6. It will give you different output.
find . -maxdepth 1 -ctime -7 -type f
rpm -qa|grep find
findutils-4.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
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date::format
Date::Format(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Date::Format(3)NAME
Date::Format - Date formating subroutines
SYNOPSIS
use Date::Format;
@lt = localtime(time);
print time2str($template, time);
print strftime($template, @lt);
print time2str($template, time, $zone);
print strftime($template, @lt, $zone);
print ctime(time);
print asctime(@lt);
print ctime(time, $zone);
print asctime(@lt, $zone);
DESCRIPTION
This module provides routines to format dates into ASCII strings. They correspond to the C library routines "strftime" and "ctime".
time2str(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE])
"time2str" converts "TIME" into an ASCII string using the conversion specification given in "TEMPLATE". "ZONE" if given specifies the
zone which the output is required to be in, "ZONE" defaults to your current zone.
strftime(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE])
"strftime" is similar to "time2str" with the exception that the time is passed as an array, such as the array returned by "localtime".
ctime(TIME [, ZONE])
"ctime" calls "time2str" with the given arguments using the conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y
"
asctime(TIME [, ZONE])
"asctime" calls "time2str" with the given arguments using the conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y
"
MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT
Date::Format is capable of formating into several languages by creating a language specific object and calling methods, see Date::Language
my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
$lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y
", time);
I am open to suggestions on this.
CONVERSION SPECIFICATION
Each conversion specification is replaced by appropriate characters as described in the following list. The appropriate
characters are determined by the LC_TIME category of the program's locale.
%% PERCENT
%a day of the week abbr
%A day of the week
%b month abbr
%B month
%c MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS
%C ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994
%d numeric day of the month, with leading zeros (eg 01..31)
%e like %d, but a leading zero is replaced by a space (eg 1..32)
%D MM/DD/YY
%G GPS week number (weeks since January 6, 1980)
%h month abbr
%H hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's)
%I hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's)
%j day of the year
%k hour
%l hour, 12 hour clock
%L month number, starting with 1
%m month number, starting with 01
%M minute, leading 0's
%n NEWLINE
%o ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc.
%p AM or PM
%P am or pm (Yes %p and %P are backwards :)
%q Quarter number, starting with 1
%r time format: 09:05:57 PM
%R time format: 21:05
%s seconds since the Epoch, UCT
%S seconds, leading 0's
%t TAB
%T time format: 21:05:57
%U week number, Sunday as first day of week
%w day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0
%W week number, Monday as first day of week
%x date format: 11/19/94
%X time format: 21:05:57
%y year (2 digits)
%Y year (4 digits)
%Z timezone in ascii. eg: PST
%z timezone in format -/+0000
%d, %e, %H, %I, %j, %k, %l, %m, %M, %q, %y and %Y can be output in Roman numerals by prefixing the letter with "O", e.g. %OY will output
the year as roman numerals.
LIMITATION
The functions in this module are limited to the time range that can be represented by the time_t data type, i.e. 1901-12-13 20:45:53 GMT to
2038-01-19 03:14:07 GMT.
AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-2009 Graham Barr. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.
perl v5.16.2 2009-12-12 Date::Format(3)