2009/7/9 bruce <[email protected]>: > never mind!! > > arrggh.. figured it out... you can use the path, followed by the time, and > the name... > > kind of like... > > find /foo -name "*.tz* -cmin -200 > > which gets the targeted file...
find can be very picky about the syntax. The flag -name matches the file name exactly, so matching a file can be tricky. It however accepts file globs, so something like '-name \*.txt' is usually effective. Its safer to escape the asterisk. You can use other options like -mmin or -amin to find by modification time or access time. find with -exec or find -print0 with xargs -0 are my favourite set of commands, after all find forms the backend for almost any search functionality in most *nix apps (e.g. search in Nautilus) :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
