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Negative. I do this all the time. Doing an ls reads a directory not the file contents. A directory is a table of string names and inode values. A long listing reads the inode information, not the...

When I do a man find on my CentOS system I find there is a -maxdepth argument.

so adding the following to the find command will do the current directory.

-maxdepth 1

This yields files in the...

&& is the LOGICAL AND operator.

So find would come after the &&.

The cd before.

cd /mydir && find . -type f -atime +60 -exec ls -lu {}\;

The above will produce a long list of files...

Did cd && thing in 1986. I will never forget wiping out the wrong files. Fortunately I had a complete backup. Never made this mistake again.

find . -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm -f {} \;

If you are not really worried about month and date formatting. Maybe you are.

That said, perhaps the following is more appropriate.

find . -type...