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I need to find a file that has been modified in last 3-4 hours. mtime tells us about file modified in n days. Is there any way I can check for hours or minutes file modified or created before.

There are probably others on this forum who can answer this question directly better than me. However, this also might be useful to you.

If you knew 3-4 hours ago that you needed to do this then you could have created a timestamp file then eg. "date > /timestamp". If you had done that then you could
"find . -newer /timestamp -print" to tell you the files modified since then.
That is easy. Let's see what other say about retrospective finds.

Thanks for quick response. But I am woking on Live server where files are created evry second . So I need to retreive files created/Modified in last 3-4 hours.
I am using below command
find . -name "*_xyz" -prune -mtime <3-4hours> | wc -l

You can use the -t option of the touch command to modify a files modification time. So create a dummy file and modify its modification time, then use find like hicksd8 showed.

Btw, did you search the forums before posting? I recall there were some similar threads in the past...

Use -mmin switch of find.