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Old 12-10-2010
finding files N hrs old
I know you can supply the find command with an option to find files > than N days old. Is there some way to do this to find files that are > than N hours old.

I want to do somthing like this:

find . -mtime + (now - 2hrs) -print

If not is there a way to do this with sed or awk or some KSH shell script code?
# 2  
Old 12-10-2010
Some find implementations support the -mmin switch:

Code:
find . -mmin -$((2*60))

If that's not an option, you could use Perl:

Code:
perl -MFile::Find -le'
  find { 
    wanted => sub {
      (2/24) > -M and print $File::Find::name
      }
    }, shift    
  ' .

# 3  
Old 12-11-2010
Use the touch command with the -t option to create a file with a specific datestamp. Then use find with -newer against your dated file.
# 4  
Old 12-11-2010
There is much variation in "find" and "date" commands.
What Operating System and version do you have?
What Shell do you prefer?
# 5  
Old 12-12-2010
This is AIX 5.3 and Solaris 2.10. It needs to work in KSH and be portable across these platforms
# 6  
Old 12-12-2010
In AIX 5.3 you can do (adjust TZ setting for your region), Don't have access to solaris 2.10 to test against but it should be pretty close:

Code:
WHEN=$(TZ=GMT-8 ; date +%m%d%H%M)
touch -t $WHEN /tmp/REF.$$
find /my/path -newer /tmp/REF.$$ -print
rm /tmp/REF.$$

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