An example: I need to write some scripts which can automatically, but reliably, prune files older than X days old from our postgresql WAL log dir. Thus far, I've been doing this by hand as I cannot get find to print out the results I expect.
Since last clean-up, the directory contains the following files: Total number of files: 1442 (and growing) Oldest file: -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3969164 Apr 8 13:50 00000001000001BF000000DB.gz Newest file: -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3622808 Apr 9 10:22 00000001000001C500000081.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] recovery]$ find . -mtime 1 -ls && find . -atime 1 -ls && find . -ctime 1 -ls No results returned. I would expect that this would return files from 1*24 hours ago. Even if it's looking for files that were created at 1034am yesterday (24 hours ago at the time of my writing this mail), I would expect something from Apr. 8th to be shown. [EMAIL PROTECTED] recovery]$ find . -mtime -0 -ls && find . -atime 0 -ls && find . -ctime 0 -ls Returned list of files contains within it files created as recently as 60 seconds ago. As I said, I'm probably not using the correct combination of time and modifiers... but it'd make life much easier if there was a friendlier way of finding files in such manner in find rather than having to use ls -lt, or perl/ruby libs. Regards, -salman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
