Find a file by date (or time) [Solved]

[Ed_P]

How do I find a file in my /mnt/live/memory/changes/ directory that got changed by a specific date? I don't remember the file's name so Find isn't helping but I know it got changed Wednesday. ls /mnt/live/memory/changes/ doesn't do it.

BTW

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root@porteus:/home/guest# ls -help
/bin/ls: invalid option -- 'e'-/code]
Isn't the invalid option 'help'?

[Slaxmax]

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix ... s-by-date/
for me

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -l  | grep "6 Ago 22"
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 6 Ago 22 17:50 testfile.txt

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guest@porteus:~$ ls --help
Uso: /bin/ls [OPÇÃO]... [ARQUIVO]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.

pay attention correct is --help

[Ed_P]

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix ... s-by-date/
for me

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -l  | grep "6 Ago 22"
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 6 Ago 22 17:50 testfile.txt

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guest@porteus:~$ ls --help
Uso: /bin/ls [OPÇÃO]... [ARQUIVO]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.

Thank you.

pay attention correct is --help

Yup.

[cttan]

Hi Ed_P,

# find / -iname "*" -mtime +60 -print
# find / -iname "*" -mtime -60 -print
# find / -iname "*" -mtime 60 -print

You can use -mtime option. It returns list of file if the file was last accessed N*24 hours ago. For example to find file in last 2 months (60 days) you need to use -mtime +60 option.
-mtime +60 means you are looking for a file modified 60 days ago.
-mtime -60 means less than 60 days.
-mtime 60 If you skip + or - it means exactly 60 days.

[Ed_P]

Thank you cttan.

Unfortunately for me the files in the /mnt/live/memory/changes/ directory all start with the time the system was booted. So if you booted today at 7:00am the oldest file date is today at 7:00am, even for files added or updated 3 days ago.

[Ed_P]

Hi cttan

I revisited your # find command suggestions tonight and found this tweaked version to be very helpful identifying configuration changes I made. Rather than looking back days I looked back 5 minutes.

find /mnt/live/memory/changes -iname "*" -mmin -5

Thanks for your help.

[Bogomips]

Hi Ed_P,

# find / -iname "*" -mtime +60 -print
# find / -iname "*" -mtime -60 -print
# find / -iname "*" -mtime 60 -print

You can use -mtime option. It returns list of file if the file was last accessed N*24 hours ago. For example to find file in last 2 months (60 days) you need to use -mtime +60 option.
-mtime +60 means you are looking for a file modified 60 days ago.
-mtime -60 means less than 60 days.
-mtime 60 If you skip + or - it means exactly 60 days.

Minor correction needed here. Also happen to have lost file downloaded two days ago. Tried suggested cli and got v. long list.

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 Numeric arguments can be specified as

       +n     for greater than n,

       -n     for less than n,

       n      for exactly n.

-mtime +60 means you are looking for a file modified more than 60 days ago.

Also useful could be

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find ~/path/to/dir/ -iname "*" -mtime -2 -maxdepth 1 -size +100M

if directory known. So less than 2 days ago greater than 100 MB.