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Old 07-06-2010
Find recently changed files
Hi,
Can you guys tell me how do i find the most recently changed files, say an hour before, few hours before, a day before etc....

Thanks!!!!
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Old 07-06-2010
Typically, I use Tripwire for this, if I want a high level of reliability and trustworthiness for this.
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Old 07-06-2010
You can combine touch and find to do this.
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Old 07-06-2010
i was trying the below command:
Code:
 
find . -mtime 1 -type -f

but this is not giving me the result that im expecting... i m looking for something that s been changed since the last 1 hour by the abouve command. Any other way to achieve this. May be all the files changed as of today s date at a particular time....?
 
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