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Old 06-12-2007
find a file
I know the option -atime (access time) of find exec . But ı don't know ,What is the difference between them:
find / -mtime -2
find / -ctime -2

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# 2  
Old 06-12-2007
this explains it: https://www.unix.com/tips-and-tutorials/20526-mtime-ctime-atime-post79750.html

next time try searching in the forum
# 3  
Old 06-12-2007
Thank you for the link.

but I did not ask your opinion.
# 4  
Old 06-12-2007
It's not an 'opinion' it's what we ask folks to do, so we don't have to explain the same thing to fifty different people.
# 5  
Old 06-13-2007
ok, thanks
# 6  
Old 06-19-2007
Can we supress the error message comming from find
Hi,
while running find command with '/' as directory,
There comes lot of error message displaying "find: cannot open .."( This is perfectly valid and expected, But i don't want to see the error messages coming on std error).This makes the output ugly and difficult to understand
is there any in built option in find, or we have to use some other command along with find to achieve this


Best Regards,
Rakesh UV
# 7  
Old 06-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by uvrakesh
Hi,
while running find command with '/' as directory,
There comes lot of error message displaying "find: cannot open .."( This is perfectly valid and expected, But i don't want to see the error messages coming on std error).This makes the output ugly and difficult to understand
is there any in built option in find, or we have to use some other command along with find to achieve this


Best Regards,
Rakesh UV
Code:
find ... 2>/dev/null

 
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