Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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.
I spoke too quickly. find -mmin +2 -mmin -30 seems to work for me. http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Age-Ranges.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
