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Old 12-31-2008
Find files which are <n> minutes old
Hi,
i want to find certain files which are more than <n> minutes old,i have the command to find the files say <n> days old(as below) but not in terms of minutes.
find . -name "14*.000" -type f -mtime +1


Is there any way to find this?


Regards,
Cherry
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Old 12-31-2008
Of course there is a way to find files of any time interval old.
You can touch a file with certain timestamp (see manual pages for program touch) and then use find with option -newer (see manual pages for program find). This procedure can be stored in a simple but useful shell script. Try it!
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Old 01-01-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by cherryven75
Hi,
i want to find certain files which are more than <n> minutes old,i have the command to find the files say <n> days old(as below) but not in terms of minutes.
find . -name "14*.000" -type f -mtime +1


Is there any way to find this?


Regards,
Cherry
You can use -mmin option

Code:
find . -name "14*.000" -type f   -mmin +1

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Old 01-01-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by dennis.jacob
You can use -mmin option

Code:
find . -name "14*.000" -type f   -mmin +1

You cannot do this with a standard/older find.
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