CMD Linux To Find
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Anupam TiwariCMD Linux To Find
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Anupam TiwariSo to find text files that were last modified 60 days ago, use
$ find /home/you -iname "*.txt" -mtime -60 -print
Display content of file on screen that were last modified 60 days ago, use
$ find /home/you -iname "*.txt" -mtime -60 -exec cat {} \;
Count total number of files using wc command
$ find /home/you -iname "*.txt" -mtime -60 | wc -l
You can also use access time to find out pdf files. Following command will print the list of all pdf file that were accessed in last 60 days:
$ find /home/you -iname "*.pdf" -atime -60 -type -f
List all mp3s that were accessed exactly 10 days ago:
$ find /home/you -iname "*.mp3" -atime 10 -type -f
There is also an option called -daystart. It measure times from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago. So, to list the all mp3s in your home directory that were accessed yesterday, type the command
$ find /home/you -iname "*.mp3" -daystart -type f -mtime 1
Where,
-type f - Only search for files and not directories
-daystart option
The -daystart option is used to measure time from the beginning of the current day instead of 24 hours ago. Find out all perl (*.pl) file modified yesterday, enter:
find /nas/projects/mgmt/scripts/perl -mtime 1 -daystart -iname "*.pl"
You can also list perl files that were modified 8-10 days ago, enter: To list all of the files in your home directory tree that were modified from two to four days ago, type:
find /nas/projects/mgmt/scripts/perl -mtime 8 -mtime -10 -daystart iname "*.pl"
-newer option
To find files in the /nas/images directory tree that are newer than the file /tmp/foo file, enter:
find /etc -newer /tmp/foo
You can use the touch command to set date timestamp you would like to search for, and then use -newer option as follows
touch --date "2010-01-05" /tmp/foo # Find files newer than 2010/Jan/05, in /data/images find /data/images -newer /tmp/foo
