----- Original Message ----- From: "David Carter-Hitchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
> Hi Drew, > > This should find all files created or modified on 25th October: > > find / -mtime 6 -ls -o -ctime 6 -ls > > (As today is 31st October which is 6 days after 25th. You may need to > widen your search a little with a seperate search with 7 as the paramter > as 6 may not catch files that were created over 6 * 24 hours ago (but were > still on the 25th); not sure about that). Thank you for your reply. I tried your suggestion and it seems to get what I want. However there are so many little files that I thought I'd modify the command to: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print If I understand the '-size' primary correctly, this means I would find files that are '100 512-byte blocks' in size or '50k'. Yet I still get output like this: 762155 2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 928 Oct 25 15:12 /usr/local/man/man3/pcre_compile.3.gz 762155 2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 928 Oct 25 15:12 /usr/local/man/man3/pcre_compile.3.gz (And why is this file listed twice, anyway?) So I guess my question is "how can I find files created or modified on Oct. 25 and are larger than <size>?" Thanks for any help. This is really confusing to me. Drew > > HTH, > David > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > On October 25, my /usr partition lost nearly 50% of it's available space. > > This disk hasn't had any significant size changes since I built the system > > as it basically serves as a gateway. > > > > I'm trying to use the find command to determine what may have been written > > to the disk but am not having any luck. I see primaries such > > as -atime, -mtime, -ctime, and -newer and have read the man pages but do not > > understand what the best combination to find those files. Basically how do > > I use 'find' to show me all file that were created or modified on October > > 25? I've tried commands such as "find /usr \( -newerct 4d \! -newerct 3d > > \) -print" but nothing is returned. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Drew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
