On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 00:25 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/7/9 bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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 The -name option will not work with only one quote Needs to be: -name "*.tz" This restricts the expansion of the glob to be done by find , rather than the shell. \*.tz should also work. > > > > which gets the targeted file... > > find can be very picky about the syntax. The flag -name matches the > file name exactly, so matching a file can be tricky. It however > accepts file globs, so something like '-name \*.txt' is usually > effective. Its safer to escape the asterisk. You can use other options > like -mmin or -amin to find by modification time or access time. > > find with -exec or find -print0 with xargs -0 are my favourite set of > commands, after all find forms the backend for almost any search > functionality in most *nix apps (e.g. search in Nautilus) :) > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > -- ======================================================================= While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
