Richard Fish wrote: > On 9/29/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> tried all the variations, not that it is the exact command. I was also >> very pissed off when I had to discover that the "find manual page" isn't >> very correct. It never made clear that "-ctime 3" means "now plus 3 >> days" and "-ctime -3" means "now minus 3 days". > > Well the man page does have this paragraph in it (emphasis added): > > If you are using find in an environment where security is > important > (for example if you are using it to seach directories that are > writable > by other users), you should read the "Security Considerations" > chapter > of the findutils documentation, which is called Finding Files > and comes > with findutils. **That document also includes a lot more > detail and > discussion than this manual page, so you may find it a more > useful > source of information.** > > So you can get better documentation from the info pages by running > "info find.info". If you want specifics on the time options: > > # info find.info "Finding Files" "Time" > > BTW, in programmer speak, "now plus 3 days" would be interpreted as 3 > days in the future...which is _not_ how find works. To try and > clarify: > > -mtime 2 -> files modified between 48 and 72 hours ago. > -mtime -2 -> files modified in the last 2 days...the period between 0 > and 48 hours ago. > -mtime +2 -> files modified more than 48 hours ago > > HTH, > -Richard
Point taken! Thanks for the clarification, Richard! -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
