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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete Files from a date Post 302945820 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 11:00:41 AM
Old 06-03-2015
Yes: -mtime +31 means the last modification data of the file (ls -l default)is more than 31 * 24 hours ago. filetimes work in epoch seconds so it really is 24*86400 seconds or more.

The reason for the comment is: the filetime difference is based the current second of system time.
 

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