Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 23:59:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for files older than n number of days? Message-ID: <20050605235701.Q80154@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050606022823.GI255@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050605215422.O79500@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050606022823.GI255@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > "find . -mtime +5" , or "find . -mtime +5d", depending on whether you > want 5 days as of the next midnight, or 5 days as of when find was > started. How do those flags work? +5 = changed during last five days? -5 = newer than five days? I ran it on a directory and was surprised to find that both -5 AND +5 listed a file from February. :-(
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