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Old 10-22-2008
Finding a file created within the last 24 hours
which out of atime, ctime, or mtime are the closest to diplaying only the files created within the last 24 hours. is it even possible to find only the files created in the last 24 hours, because I heard that unix files don't hold the creation time as a property of the file.
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Old 10-22-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver
While they may not all show up, or be in a format you like when doing an ls command, all are retrievable.

The stat command is useful for this.
stat -c%x myfile == provides time of last access
%y would give time of last modification
%z would give time of last change
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Old 10-29-2008
Well....
I need a script which list the files which is starting with the word heap*** and that is created before past 24 hours.I need the script using find command. please help me on this????????????????

here it is

find . -type f -name "heap*" -mtime 0
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Old 11-08-2008
when you set the below variable, "CST" needs to be the time zone your in and you may need to change what character the cut starts at in order to get the full file name. Smilie

DATE_STAMP=`TZ=CST+24 date +'%b %e'`

ls -l |grep "$DATE_STAMP" |grep "heap*" |cut -c55-
 
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