Oh I understand it now.

Thanks Craig for the very handy trick :)

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Craig Anderson<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> N is in 24 hour units (fractional parts discarded).  So if the file
> was changed (or created) less than 24 hours ago, it's 0 (because it's
> less than one 24 hour period and there's no rounding up).
>
> I suppose if you just wanted to run this everyday in cron for instance:
>   find /some/dir -ctime -0 \! -type d  -print | egrep -v '/
> public_html/cache/|/public_html/uploads/'
> would give you files modified in the last 24 hours and ignore new/
> changed files in the cache and uploads directories.
>
> I should have also mentioned that new files (not just changed ones)
> are included.  However if a filename changes then it won't be on the
> list (unless you remove the "\! -type d") but you'll only see that the
> directory changed (and you won't actually know what happened).
>
> -Craig
>
> On 11/06/2009, at 10:10 AM, Sid Bachtiar wrote:
>> I still don't understand it, if -N is -2 ... it would be?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Craig Anderson<[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> The -N is in 24 hour periods with fractional parts discarded.  So -
>>> ctime -1 is files which were changed within the last 47 hours 59
>>> seconds.
>
>
>
> >
>



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