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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Find files modified in previous minute only Post 302927499 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 3rd of December 2014 12:44:26 PM
Old 12-03-2014
One way would be to create a reference file with a timestamp to look back to. If you run it at 09:34 on 3rd December 2014, and you need to find files newer that 09:33:00 then you can (working out the values of course):-
Code:
touch -mt 201412030934 /tmp/ref_file
find . -newer /tmp/ref_file

The format value is in the manual page for the touch command.

If you need to include the seconds to get a more accurate 'previous minute' then simply add the seconds part, e.g.:-
Code:
touch -mt 201412030934.22 /tmp/ref_file
find . -newer /tmp/ref_file

If you have support for the -d flag, then you could do this:-
Code:
touch -md "1 minute ago" /tmp/ref_file
find . -newer /tmp/ref_file


I hope that this helps,
Robin
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touch(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 touch(1B)

NAME
touch - change file access and modification times SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file... DESCRIPTION
touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist. OPTIONS
-a Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified. -c Do not create file if it does not exist. -f Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file. -m Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified. USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes). EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made. >0 An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5) SunOS 5.11 26 Oct 1995 touch(1B)
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