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)
Hi
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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open
OPEN(1) Linux 1.x OPEN(1)NAME
open - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
SYNOPSIS
open [-c vtnumber] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-v] [--] command command_options
DESCRIPTION
open will find the first available VT, and run on it the given command with the given command options, standard input, output and error are
directed to that terminal. The current search path ($PATH) is used to find the requested command. If no command is specified then the envi-
ronment variable $SHELL is used.
OPTIONS
-c vtnumber
Use the given VT number and not the first available. Note you must have write access to the supplied VT for this to work.
-s Switch to the new VT when starting the command. The VT of the new command will be made the new current VT.
-u Figure out the owner of the current VT, and run login as that user. Suitable to be called by init. Shouldn't be used with -c or -l.
-l Make the command a login shell. A - is prepended to the name of the command to be executed.
-v Be a bit more verbose.
-w wait for command to complete. If -w and -s are used together then open will switch back to the controlling terminal when the command
completes.
-- end of options to open.
NOTE
If open is compiled with a POSIX (Gnu) getopt() and you wish to set options to the command to be run, then you must supply the end of
options -- flag before the command.
EXAMPLES
open can be used to start a shell on the next free VT, by using the command:
open bash
To start the shell as a login shell, use:
open -l bash
To get a long listing you must supply the -- separator:
open -- ls -l
SEE ALSO login(1), doshell(8), switchto(1).
AUTHOR
Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es or jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
-w idea from "sam".
19 Jul 1996 V1.4 OPEN(1)