> From: JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> At 08:31 PM 1/30/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >>I'm trying to get a list of files 30 day sold or younger. I thought the following
>would to the trick:
> >>
> >>find . -type f -mtime 30 -ls
> >>
> >>But that only prints files that are exactly 30 days old. How do I do that "and
>younger" part?
> >>Less then 31 days would be a suitable substitute too.
> >>
> >>Jonathan Wilson
> >
> >Read the man page for find again. It is described right there on the page.
>
> Actually no, it was not in the name page - not that I could see. And I did read it.
>The best it did was:
>
> -mtime n
> File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.
>
> No mention of + or - there.
Just for the record . . .
Keep reading - it's there a little farther down in the man page:
TESTS
Numeric arguments can be specified as
+n for greater than n,
-n for less than n,
n for exactly n.
>
> OTH, I did discover by reading the man page that there is an info page "info Finding
>Files" - and that proved quite useful. As I said in my Re: I did figure out, thanks
>to the info page, no thanks to the man page.
>
> The following did the trick:
>
> find /logs/ -type f -mtime +30 -name "*log.gz" -exec cp -p {} . \;
Dave
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