On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Just to expose my ignorance again, would someone lift my blinkers
> please? I'm recovering from an infection and my brain is stuck.
>
> It's time to start pruning old stuff from the website I run, which has
> 2200 files in 200 directories.
>
> I'm trying to find old images like this:
> find . -iname \*.jpg -exec ls '-cdl' {} \; | cut -d \ -f 5-10
It's obvious how that command finds old images. Can you explain what
it's supposed to do?
> Is there a simple way to do this? Ideally I'd like a chronologically
> ordered list of the files.
Do you want a chronologically ordered list, or do you want to find
files older than a certain age?
If the former, try this:
find . -iname '*.jpg' | xargs ls -lt
If the latter, read the 'find' man page and look for the -mtime test.
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