RE: mtime to remove old files

Hi,
Something like "find ... -mtime +1 ..." finds files that changed more than
one day ago. The number specifies a number of 24 hour periods, so if you
specify "+2" the file has to have been changed more than 48 hours ago. The
resolution of the time comparison only goes as low as a day.

So:

touch -m 09180000  wtupa.tmp

ls -l  wtupa.tmp
-rw-rw-rw-   1 pete     devel          3 Sep 18 00:00 wtupa.tmp

find . -name "wtupa.tmp" -mtime +2 (nothing found)

touch -m 09171705  wtupa.tmp      

find . -name "wtupa.tmp" -mtime +2
result ---> ./wtupa.tmp

and the date is
Mon Sep 20 17:05:09 BST 2004

Regards

Pete

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Subject: mtime to remove old files


[leprod:> ls -la /dbdumps/backups/df*
-rw-r-----   1 oracle   dba      5256142848 Sep 18 07:12
/dbdumps/backups/df_t51

When I use:

[leprod:> find /dbdumps/backups -name "df*" -mtime +0 -print
/dbdumps/backups/df_t537174441_s1_p1
[oracle@dohsdb10]:/usr/oracle/tools/bin

When I use anything other than +1 or more the file isn't found.
However, the system date is Sep 20.  Yet the last modified time was the
18th.  

What am I missing?

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