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From: jay@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Plett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: "find" and {a,c,m}time
Summary: more find intricacies
Message-ID: <3961@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 88 00:51:39 GMT
References: <170@libove.UUCP> <3013@mipos3.intel.com>
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <3013@mipos3.intel.com>, merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) writes:
> In article <170@libove.UUCP>, root@libove (Jay M. Libove) writes:
> where +n means more than n, -n means less than n, and n means exactly
> n."
It's also worth knowing that integer division is involved.
"find /fubar -?time +3" means "more days than 3", ie 4 days or more.
3 days 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds doesn't hit.  My simple intuition would
have guessed that 3 days + 1 second is "more than 3 days".

	jay@princeton.edu