alex lupu wrote: > I'm saddened that after all these years there's apparently no easy way to > do something like (expressed in Artificial Intelligence :): > "Find files modified (accessed, created) in a range of time (in minutes)" > "After but Before a time in minutes ago". > > Most people with PhD's in "find", claim you cannot create something _simple_ > like, > > find ... -mmin -<beginofrange> -mmin +<endofrange> ... > > That despite of a voluminous, feature-rich and extremely detailed > documentation and/or blogs. > Despite various available ands, ors and the like, one can sprinkle around. > Despite the clear explanations that the "-" means "after ... ago" and > "+" means "before ... ago" (or is it the other way around? :). > Despite the lack of warning that the "-" and "+" constructs do not work > together. Apparently one at a time > > You'd think that after the so called "old" find and the "stable" one (since > 2009) something like > find ... -mmin -240 [-a/-o/whatnot] -mmin +120 ... > would work. > > Any thoughts?
I agree with you. The parsing of arguments uses the last value of -mmin, but it seems like a -mmax argument would be useful. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
