find

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Gurus,
i am very to Unix, could you please advise how to find the files which are modified last 24 hrs and the file name starts with abc

will it work

find -mtime -1 | ls -lrt "abc"*

please help me out

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Well it will kind of work. That find command will only search the current working directory. You may want to give a directory to start in. Also, if you just want files, throw it a type.

Don't use ls, use grep.

find /home/userland -mtime -1 -type f | grep abc
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Thank a lot

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This grepping can also be ignored and used as:

find ~ -mtime -1 -type f -iname "abc*"