I disagree with in2nix.
find's behavior is largely very consistent, expecially on versions of UNIX that are POSIX-compliant.
find uses the stat() system call. This returns mtime as seconds since Jan 01 1970, called 'epoch seconds'. mtime +13 means the file's modification time is greater than the number of seconds in a day times 13 - at least (84600 * 13) seconds ago.
Not actual calendar days.
This result for find is from the CURRENT TIME. The time right now in epoch seconds. If you want find to behave the way you think about dates you have to give those it kinds of dates/times in the form of an mtime you set on a dummy file
So, -mtime +days ain't gonna cut it.
touch -t YYYYmmddhhmm [somefilename] sets an exact mtime on a file
example:
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Dear friends,
please tell me how to find the files which are existing in the current directory, but it sholud not search in the sub directories..
it is like this,
current directory contains
file1, file2, file3, dir1, dir2
and dir1 conatins
file4, file5
and dir2 contains
file6,... (9 Replies)
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I am using "trap" command in my script to prevent the user from running Ctrl-C during the its execution. My script creates number of children processes which in turn create some children processes as well during the execution.
When user / tester tries to run Ctrl-C, the parent process is... (1 Reply)
I have these two files in current dir:
oos.txt
oos_(copy).txt
I execute this find command:find . -regex './oos*.txt'And this outputs only the first file (oos.txt)! :confused:
Only if I add another asterisk to the find find . -regex './oos*.*txt' do I also get the second file... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have line in input file as below:
3G_CENTRAL;INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL;SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL
My expected output for line in the file must be :
"1-Radon1-cMOC_deg"|"LDIndex"|"3G_CENTRAL|INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL"|LAST|"SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL"
Can someone... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Suppose if I have a file having data like this:
$ cat file.txt
A
B C
D
And, if I do a cut operation like this:
$ cut -d" " -f2 file.txt
The output is
A
C
D
This is the same for even if we try to get the field 3 with -f3 (assume line 2 has 3 fields : C E F).
The above... (1 Reply)
I want to list all files/lines which except those which contain the pattern ' /proc/' OR ' /sys/' (mind the leading blank).
In a first approach I coded:
find / -exec ls -ld {} | grep -v ' /proc/| /sys/' \; > /tmp/list.txt
But this doesn't work. I got an error (under Ubuntu):
grep:... (5 Replies)
I have a bunch of random character lines like ABCEDFG. I want to find all lines with "A" and then change any "E" to "X" in the same line. ALL lines with "A" will have an "X" somewhere in it. I have tried sed awk and vi editor. I get close, not quite there. I know someone has already solved this... (10 Replies)
How to use "mailx" command to do e-mail reading the input file containing email address, where column 1 has name and column 2 containing “To” e-mail address
and column 3 contains “cc” e-mail address to include with same email.
Sample input file, email.txt
Below is an sample code where... (2 Replies)
These three finds worked as expected:
$ find . -iname "*.PDF"
$ find . -iname "*.PDF" \( ! -name "*_nobackup.*" \)
$ find . -path "*_nobackup*" -prune -iname "*.PDF"
They all returned the match:
./folder/file.pdf
:b:
This find returned no matches:
$ find . -path "*_nobackup*" -prune... (3 Replies)
I've found this script part on the stackoverflow:
if ; then
sudo bash "$0" "$@";
exit "$?";
fi
I realized that sudo bash "$0" "$@"; is the only needed for me.
But the strange thing happens when I move this line outside the IF statement:
sudo bash "$0" "$@"; stops the... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: boqsc
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time
TIME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual TIME(2)NAME
time - get time in seconds
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h>
time_t time(time_t *t);
DESCRIPTION
time returns the time since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970), measured in seconds.
If t is non-NULL, the return value is also stored in the memory pointed to by t.
RETURN VALUE
On success, the value of time in seconds since the Epoch is returned. On error, ((time_t)-1) is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EFAULT t points outside your accessible address space.
NOTES
POSIX.1 defines seconds since the Epoch as a value to be interpreted as the number of seconds between a specified time and the Epoch,
according to a formula for conversion from UTC equivalent to conversion on the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all years
divisible by 4 are leap years. This value is not the same as the actual number of seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap
seconds and because clocks are not required to be synchronised to a standard reference. The intention is that the interpretation of sec-
onds since the Epoch values be consistent; see POSIX.1 Annex B 2.2.2 for further rationale.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3
Under BSD 4.3, this call is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2). POSIX does not specify any error conditions.
SEE ALSO ctime(3), date(1), ftime(3), gettimeofday(2)Linux 2.0.30 1997-09-09 TIME(2)