Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am using HP Unix. I want to list files which are created 5 minutes before on the same day as well as before today's date. I checked all the forums and the commands provided there does not work on HP Unix.

Can you please help me on this? Your help is highly aprreciated.

Thanks and Regards
Angshuman

First off you can do whatever you need. Your question is not clear.
What is says to me:
find files that are five minutes old
find files from yesterday that are exactly 24:05 minutes old.

There are problems with exact file times. Filetimes are to the second. Plus, five minutes ago is relative to when you actually run the command.

It is 0430 local time. So five minutes ago is 0425. That means we are looking for files greater than equal to five minutes ago and less than six minutes ago:

Code:

touch -t 201302100424.59 dummy1   # five minutes + one second old 
touch -t 201302100426.00 dummy2    # six minutes old
find /path/to/files -type f \( -newer dummy1 -a ! -newer dummy2 \) -exec ls -l {} \;

Try that

Hi,

I am sorry if I could not explain my requirement clearly. Let me try once again.

I want to list files which are created 5 minutes ago or before that.

Thanks and Regards
Angshuman

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Hi Jim,

Thank you for your reply. Using your suggestion I managed to achieve my requirement. However, the find command is including the subdirectories also. I wish to restrict the find to the current directory and do not want to display the files in subdirectories.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards
Angshuman

Modify the find statement as follows:

Code:

cd /path/to/files &&
find . \! -name . -prune ...