On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Rob Saul wrote:

> On Friday 05 July 2002 05:26, you wrote:
> > i still don't get find
> >
> > "find . -mmin 15" doesn't get me what files that have been modified _since_
> > 15minutes ago...  what does it do?  and how do i get what i want?
> 
> computers are very literal.  this looks for files modified _exaclty_ 15
> minutes ago.  Have you tried "find . -mmin -15" or "find . -mmin +15"?

technically, if it works the same way as -mtime, -atime and so on, to 
say "-mmin 15" would represent stuff modified in the one-minute window
of 15 to 16 minutes ago.  that is, it wouldn't represent "exactly"
15 minutes ago to the millisecond or something like that.

rday



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