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From: jay@silence.princeton.nj.us (Jay Plett)
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Subject: Re: Finding files modified "today" (Was: Awk with passed parameters)
Summary: more options for find
Keywords: awk bsd shell
Message-ID: <686@silence.princeton.nj.us>
Date: 28 Mar 91 03:25:45 GMT
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In article <3450@unisoft.UUCP>, greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes:
> I think find(1) needs yet more improvement, most of all in the department
> of time granularity (if you can call a day "granular" -- seems like a large
> boulder to me...).  Oh, and a -ctime option would be nice...

-ctime is available in at least Sun's and gnu's find.

I have added several primitives to gnu find and sent the sources off
to gnu.  If gnu likes them, they should be available in a future
release.

     -amin n
          File was last accessed n minutes ago.
 
     -anewer file
          File's access time is more recent than the modification
          time  of  file.  -anewer is affected by -follow only if
          -follow comes before -anewer on the command line.

     -cmin n
          File's status was last modified n minutes ago.
 
     -cnewer file
          File's status was last changed more recently  than  the
          modification  time  of  file.   -cnewer  is affected by
          -follow only if -follow comes  before  -cnewer  on  the
          command line.

     -gid n
          File's gid matches n.

     -lname pattern
          File is a symbolic link and  its  object  matches  glob
          pattern  pattern.  The entire object string is compared
          with pattern, not just its basename.  For  example,  in
          ``foo -> ./bar',  -lname bar would not match but -lname
          '*bar' would.  Slashes have no special meaning.
 
     -mmin n
          File was last modified n minutes ago.

     -uid n
          File's uid matches n.
 
     -used n
          File was last accessed n days after its status was last
          changed.

     -plink
          True if file is a symbolic  link,  else  false.   Print
          file's  name and its link object as ``name -> object''.
          To print all names, resolving symbolic links,  use  ``-
          plink -o -print''.

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	Jay Plett
	jay@princeton.edu