> > On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > > >> I ran it on a directory and was surprised to find that both -5 AND +5 > >> listed a file from February. :-( > > > > -5 definitely should not, and doesn't on my system. It should be > > interpreted as "less than 5 days from midnight tonight". > > I think I found a bug in find. > If you add the '-ls' parameter before the -mtime it ignores mtime. > Example: > find . -ls -mtime -5d > Shows all files in directory. > > > find . -mtime -5d -ls > Shows correctly files modified less than 5 days old.
I am not sure it is exactly a bug. It seems to be dependant on how find processes its parameters - in order of occurance. A similar effect can be seen with some other parameter combinations such as putting -print in the wrong place - you can get all files in the system printed or none rather than just what you want. Possibly the man page needs to be updated to make the effect of parameter order clear. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
