to find all files created a day back

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Guys,

My unix is SunOS. I like to find all the files which are created 1 day back.
i tried the following command

find . -type f -name '*.aud' -mtime +1

This gives me all the files created 48 hours back (2 days) but not one..
Can you let me know where i am going wrong.

Thanks,
Magesh

2 
find . -type f -name '*.aud' -mtime -1

(Gives you all files modified in the last 24 hours)

If this doesn't match your requirement, please give examples relative to a given date and time.

3

man find

-atime n
              File was last accessed n*24 hours ago.  When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed,  any
              fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least two days ago.

Even though you specify +1, it is atleast two days as per the man page.
So if "-1" fits your requirement, use that.,

4

Hi methyl.
The folder i am looking into is havin aournd 5000 files..

{oracle:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.6.0_64/rdbms/audit}$ ls -ltr
total 10018
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora    1186 Jan 14  2006 ora_6736.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     781 Jan 14  2006 ora_6793.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora    1186 Jan 14  2006 ora_6830.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     644 Jan 14  2006 ora_6879.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     637 Jan 14  2006 ora_8716.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     918 Jan 14  2006 ora_8827.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     644 Jan 14  2006 ora_8858.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     637 Jan 14  2006 ora_8859.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     637 Jan 14  2006 ora_8917.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora    1190 Jan 14  2006 ora_11449.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     646 Jan 14  2006 ora_11486.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     639 Jan 14  2006 ora_11487.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     776 Jan 14  2006 ora_12055.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     920 Jan 14  2006 ora_12382.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     646 Jan 14  2006 ora_12450.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     639 Jan 14  2006 ora_12451.aud
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   sysdbora     639 Jan 14  2006 ora_12982.aud
{oracle:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.6.0_64/rdbms/audit}$ find . -type f -name '*.aud' -mtime -1
{oracle:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.6.0_64/rdbms/audit}$
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I get one Oracle audit log every time a priviliged user connects to the database (for example for startup and shutdown). Because my database is stop/started daily for backup these logs accumulate rapidly and I normally only keep a week's worth. Similarly for Oracle alert logs, Oracle listener logs adn Oracle trace logs.
Your situation may be different.

What are you trying to do?

6

actually i am trying to extract data from all the files which are more than one day old..

So for that i want to find the files whcih are more than one day old...

7

try this code:

find . -type f -name '*.aud' -mmin +1440

hope it will work for you

regards,
Sanjay

8

i am getting this error..

find: bad option -mmin
find: path-list predicate-list

As i said mine is SunOS

9

Second attempt.

Try:
find . -type f -name '*.aud' -mtime +0