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Old 06-28-2012
How to find files created today in a particular directory?

Dear All,

I want a Hp Ux command to find out the files created today in a particular directory or mountpoint.


Kindly help.


Thanks

Bhaskar
# 2  
Old 06-28-2012
Code:
$ find dir_name -mtime 0

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# 3  
Old 06-28-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jayan_jay
Code:
$ find dir_name -mtime 0




It is displaying the todays files and also previous days files. Below is the proof--

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$ pwd
/log/hira
$ find /log/hira -mtime 0
/log/hira
/log/hira/testhira
/log/hira/dba_scripts/awrreports/aces
/log/hira/dba_scripts/tmp
/log/hira/dba_scripts/awrrpt_dump24Hrs_rpt.sql
/log/hira/security
/log/hira/security/test.sh
/log/hira/security/tmp.exe
/log/hira/security/t_part1.txt
/log/hira/security/t_part2.txt
/log/hira/security/t_all.txt
/log/hira/security/pexcap02data.txt
/log/hira/security/pexcap01data.txt
/log/hira/security/commrt.sql
/log/hira/security/commr.txt
/log/hira/security/all_commr.txt
/log/hira/security/all_mastr.txt
/log/hira/security/all_nodes.txt
/log/hira/security/finalout.txt
/log/hira/security/out_comm.txt
/log/hira/security/t_all_nodes.txt
/log/hira/security/t_all_commr.txt
/log/hira/security/hira_1.sh
/log/hira/security/junk_hira_1.sh
/log/hira/junsk
/log/hira/junsk/abc.sh
$ ls -ld /log/hira/testhira
-rw-r--r-- 1 143 sisips 0 Jun 28 14:03 /log/hira/testhira
$ ls -ltr /log/hira/security/all_commr.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 sisips sisips 1439573 Jun 27 15:54 /log/hira/security/all_commr.txt
$ ls -ltr /log/hira/junsk/abc.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 26 Jun 28 14:38 /log/hira/junsk/abc.sh
$
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# 4  
Old 06-28-2012
Code:
find /log/hira -mmin -1440

# 5  
Old 06-28-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pravin27
Code:
find /log/hira -mmin -1440

It is not working. Below is the response
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$ pwd
/log/hira
$ find /log/hira -mmin -1440
find: bad option -mmin
$

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# 6  
Old 06-28-2012
-mtime 0 will pick latest 24 hrs modified files .. Thats y it picks yours yesterday dates files too ..

Then try with the below ..
Code:
$ find dir_path -mtime 0 -type f -exec ls -ltr {} \; | grep "$(date +%d|sed 's,^0,,g') ..:.."

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# 7  
Old 06-28-2012
How to find files created today in a particular directory in HPUX?

Dear All,

I want a Hp Ux command to find out the files created today in a particular directory or mountpoint.


Kindly help.


Thanks

Bhaskar
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