Find files older then today & display with timestamp info

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Small query-

I want to do some operation on all the files older then today. Before I do that operation, i want to verify if the command works properly or not.

Surprisingly, the command below returns me file, which are created today -

find /mrk_archive/PG/ftp/incomming/gbs/2008 -type f -mtime +1 -print| ls -lst | more

Is there any other way to see the files selected by find , sorted as per the date with the timestamp information?

Thanks & a Happy New Year !!

2

mtime is the right option, just try incrementing to 2+. BTW, you can use -ls as an option to find rather than print and you won't have to pipe to the ls command.

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Thanks, man..

One surprising thing,

Both of command below returns me the same set of result.

  • find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime +0 -ls
  • find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime +1 -ls

Where as,
find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime 0 -ls
returns results of previsous day.

Consider today is 2nd jan, then it shows all only results of 1st Jan .. !!