UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello Mates! I'm kinda new to unix and need to a solve a problem.

Input: date

Situation: With the given date I need to find a list of all such files starting from a given path that were modified after the given date.

I experimented with the "find" with "-newer" but did not quite get it to work. Any clarifications through examples appreciated!

Any other pointers on how to solve this would be helpful!!

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!!

please check like this :

Code:

find . -ctime +30 -exec ls -l {} \;

thanks for the reply.
please could you explain the "-ctime +30" portion. I dont get it.

"-atime/-ctime/-mtime" the last time a files's "access time", "file status" and "modification time", measured in days or minutes. Time interval in options -ctime, -mtime and -atime is an integer with optional sign.

* n: If the integer n does not have sign this means exactly n days ago, 0 means today.

* +n: if it has plus sing, then it means "more then n days ago", or older then n,

* -n: if it has the minus sign, then it means less than n days ago (-n), or younger then n. It's evident that -1 and 0 are the same and both means "today".

* Examples:

o Find everything in your home directory modified in the last 24 hours:
+ find $HOME -mtime 0

o Find everything in your home directory modified in the last 7 days:
+ find $HOME -mtime -7

o Find everything in your home directory that have NOT been modified in the last year:
+ find $HOME -mtime +365

o To find html files that have been modified in the last seven days, I can use -mtime with the argument -7 (include the hyphen):

find . -mtime -7 -name "*.html" -print

If you use the number 7 (without a hyphen), find will match only html files that were modified exactly seven days ago:

find . -mtime 7 -name "*.html" -print

o To find those html files that I haven't touched for at least 7 days, I use +7:

find . -mtime +7 -name "*.html" -print

hey mate! that was a real eye opener. i was getting a bit put off by the description in the man files...

thanks again!!

cheers!!