Comments on: Find Files that are Modified Today (or Since Certain Time Ago) in Unix

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:53:45 +0000

Question: If one does a find for files modified in the last two minutes, and it takes the command ten minutes to complete, is that going to fail completely?

By: Bruno De Barros

Bruno De Barros — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:46:00 +0000

@Kiran Kappeta, it works for me on Ubuntu. Try to see if it supports any non-integer values at all (for example, try 0.5 or 0.25). If it doesn’t, there’s your problem.

By: Kiran Kappeta

Kiran Kappeta — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:02:43 +0000

Good one. Thanks.

Tried

find . -mtime -0.041666667 -print

on Debian, it throws an error
“find: invalid argument `-0.041666667′ to `-mtime’”

By: Bruno De Barros

Bruno De Barros — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:02:29 +0000

Additionally, to find files modified less than an hour ago:
find . -mtime -0.041666667 -print

Simply divide 1 by 24 (24 hours) and you’ll get what you want. For example, 0.1 is 2 hours and 24 minutes.

I hope this helps whoever needs to find files modified LESS than one full day ago.

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Bruno De Barros

By: Susmita

Susmita — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:00:29 +0000

thanks a lot for the good article.

By: Prabhakar

Prabhakar — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:22:19 +0000

It was of timely help
Thanks.

By: RuBiCK

RuBiCK — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:36:13 +0000

And how you will find files by specified hour?

example. Files modified in last 8hours, if now, the time is 01AM

By: Deiby

Deiby — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:08:10 +0000

Thanks!!

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By: einstein

einstein — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:35:35 +0000

Very good article, thanx!

By: iPAS

iPAS — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:59:18 +0000

Great Thnks!