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Old 09-11-2013
Find command to get the modified files past 2 hours

Hello,

How to get the modified/created files past 2 hours in Solaris with find command?

Thank you.

Last edited by Scott; 09-11-2013 at 02:41 PM.. Reason: jpeyg: corrected spelling; Scott: Moved from Unix for Advanced and Expert Users
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Old 09-11-2013
What have you tried?

The basic command would be something like:
Code:
find / -mmin -120

although you probably want some more options.

What have you tried, and not working?
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Old 09-11-2013
Solaris version of find that is included with Solaris 10 and below does not support "-mmin" option. What you can use to work around that is use touch with option "-t" and proper time specification to create a file which modification time is two hours in the past. Then use find with "-newer" option and the newly created filename as it's argument to find all the files that were modified in the last two hours.
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Old 09-12-2013
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Originally Posted by bartus11
Solaris version of find that is included with Solaris 10 and below does not support "-mmin" option. What you can use to work around that is use touch with option "-t" and proper time specification to create a file which modification time is two hours in the past. Then use find with "-newer" option and the newly created filename as it's argument to find all the files that were modified in the last two hours.
Hello,

I am not creating any file myself. I just wanted to get the files which are created by the application past 2 hours. So, touch is not possible.

Thanks.
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Old 09-12-2013
Is it forbidden to create any new file? For example in /tmp?
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Old 09-12-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Is it forbidden to create any new file? For example in /tmp?
Hello,
I wanted to search the files under application. So, can not create myself anything. creating files under /tmp is not applicable.

Thanks.
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Old 09-12-2013
Then install the GNU Utilities.
 
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