What exactly are you looking for? Do you want to find files which are older than a particular file or you want to find it using name?
If you are looking for files older than your reference file (let's say ref_file) you can use this :
Code:
find . ! -newer ref_file print
(! for not newer than or rather older than your reference file)
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Last edited by jim mcnamara; 11-09-2012 at 08:55 PM..
Hello,
We have in a file a list of the path of files from one server.
We want to search if these files exist on another server , but the path on this new server isn't the same.
We want to use the command "awk" but there isn't the god way.
Example:
on server 1 in a file : listServer1.txt... (4 Replies)
Can anyone see why the following command returns all files and not just the directories as specified?
find . -type d -exec ls -F {} \;
Also tried
find . -type d -name "*" -exec ls -F {} \;
find . -type d -name "*" -exec ls -F '{}' \; -print
Always returns all files :-\
OS is... (2 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Need to make a script, to remove all empty files and folders from current category.
It also should show the name... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how best to approach this script, and I have very little experience, so I could use all the help I can get. :wall:
I regularly need to delete files from many directories.
A file with the same name may exist any number of times in different subdirectories.... (3 Replies)
I have a task, I usually do manually, but with growing responsibilities I tend to forget to do this weekly, I want to write a script that automates this, but I cant seem to work it out in my head, I have the shell of it out, but need help, and you guys have helped me with EVERY problem I have... (5 Replies)
My git post-update has the following lines in it to make sure the permissions are set right:
find /usr/local/apache/htdocs -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
find /usr/local/apache/htdocs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
chown -R apache:apache /usr/local/apache/htdocsThe only problem is... (5 Replies)
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)
First I'm new to Linux and have used the find command pretty often but this is where I've hit a snag. I have a file that contains 3500 files that I want to find and then eventually copy to my own directory (these files are all on a shared directory at work atm).
Our work computer are huge and... (2 Replies)
Hello
I have user directories that contain /temp directory.
Example folders:
/user1/temp/
/user2/temp/
/user3/temp/
How can i loop over all user directories and find all files only in their /temp folder?
Thanks a lot for help! (3 Replies)
I have two directories
Dir 1
/home/sid/release1
Dir 2
/home/sid/release2
I want to find the common files between the two directories
Dir 1 files
/home/sid/release1>ls -lrt
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 sid cool 0 Jun 19 12:53 File123
-rw-r--r-- 1 sid cool 0 Jun 19 12:53... (5 Replies)
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