never mind!! arrggh.. figured it out... you can use the path, followed by the time, and the name... kind of like... find /foo -name "*.tz* -cmin -200 which gets the targeted file... thanks! -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:34 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: trying to find a path/file... On 09Jul2009 19:27, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | trying to figure out how to craft a find cmd to find a given file in a dir, | that is changed more than x mins in the past | | i thought i could use a combination of find, wholename, and cmin... but | those isn't giving me what i'm looking for... it's not returning any | files... | | thought i could do a pipe, but that didn't work either | | i thought | find . /foo/*.txt -cmin -10 would work, but that's not using the change | "cmin" attribute... | | so i've also tried | find . -cmin -10 -wholename '/foo/*.txt' with no luck as well... -10 is _less_ than 10 minutes in the past. Sure you don't mean +10? Also, why -wholename (which I don't use myself much, since it's GNU-specific I think)? If you leave off the "-cmin -10", does the file show up at all? What do these do? find /foo/*.txt -ls find /foo/*.txt -cmin +10 -ls find /foo/*.txt -cmin -10 -ls Don't forget that while you _usually_ point find at directories, it can be pointed at files too. Also consider: find /foo -depth 1 -name '*.txt' -ls find /foo -depth 1 -name '*.txt' -cmin +10 -ls Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Expect all you want no one can force me to say anything intelligent. - Babs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
