-since option for ls -lt

Ray Smith rcsmith at anagld.UUCP
Wed Jun 8 21:10:40 AEST 1988


     In article <344 at ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> jrkelly at ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
(John Kelly) writes:
> ...  The only other command I know of that compares modification times
>is "find" with the "-newer file" option, which lists files that are newer
>than the specified file.  But unless one can force the specified file to
>have the desired cutoff modification time, this option does not help.


Try the "find" command with either the "-mtime" or "-atime" options for
modified time or access time.

An example of finding all files modified with in the last week follows:

   find . -mtime -7 -a ! -type d -print
		       ^^^^^^^^^
		       We don't want any directories do we??

Cheers,
Ray
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