how to find files older than 2 hours

pt14 · March 5, 2008, 8:47am

I need help to find files in a directory that are older than 2 hours.
Any help would be great.

lbreddy · March 5, 2008, 9:12am

Hi this is babu,

I am giving a command follwing,

touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] somefile
find . ! -newer somefile -print

This command will be displayed the files at the perticular time stamp.
bye,
babu:

itik · March 5, 2008, 10:50am

I have a common script for finding it in two days but not two hours:

find /users -name '*.tmp' -mtime +2

Try to find something on the -mtime maybe you could change this param to be hour not day.

joeyg · March 5, 2008, 11:31am

Take a look at the FAQ's.
My thought is in using perl, and then seeing if the last modification time is within 2 hours of now.