On 09/11/2014 04:09 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:08:31 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: > > I finally got some results with: > > find -maxdepth 5 -atime +10 -name \*.odt > > Putting the escape in front of the * is necessary unless you quote the > pattern, but doing '*.odt' produced no results. The escape worked, > however. > > But the problem is that the above command delivered every .odt file on > my computer, which is many hundreds, if not thousands.
How about piping it to grep with the name of the file you're looking for? find -maxdepth 5 -atime +10 -name \*.odt | grep nameoffile.odt -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
