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Old 09-26-2010
Find and symbolic link modification time
Hi,

I have a directory made up of many symbolic links to folders multiple file systems.

I want to return folders modified within the last 50 days, but find is using the link time rather than the target time.
Code:
find . -type d -mtime -50

Is there a way to either:
a) Make a symbolic link modification time match its target or
b) Have find reference the target modification time?

Thanks,

Colm
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Old 09-27-2010
Code:
 -L
            Cause the file information and file type evaluated for each symbolic link to be those of the file referenced by the link, and not the link
            itself.

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