Sep 1, 2014 · The POSIX specification for find says: -mtime n The primary shall evaluate as true if the file modification time subtracted from the initialization time, divided by 86400 (with any …

Dec 19, 2019 · So, I understand the difference between the three ideas in the title. atime -- access time = last time file opened mtime -- modified time = last time file contents was modified ctime …

For example, -mtime 1 selects files that were modified between 1 and 2 days ago. -mtime +1 selects files that were modified at least 2 days ago. To get files modified at least 1 day ago, …

Dec 18, 2014 · ctime - the last time the file's inode was changed (e.g. permissions changed, file renamed, etc..) mtime - last time the file's CONTENTS were changed atime - last time the file …

Sep 28, 2015 · find /var/www/html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mtime +1 -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \; I would like to run it every 1 hour and delete files that are older than 1 hour.

Apr 2, 2015 · Quite answered in this answer: Why does find -mtime +1 only return files older than 2 days? --> find . -mtime +0 finds files modified greater than 24 hours ago. find . -mtime 0 finds …

Oct 25, 2008 · What's the best cross-platform way to get file creation and modification dates/times, that works on both Linux and Windows?

What is the difference with mtime's - and + switches as both are not bringing back the results I need? I'm looking to delete all files older than 5 days: find /mnt/sdb1/tmp/ -type f -mtime +5 -e...

Jan 18, 2017 · I just created a text-file yyy in my home-directory. I modified it both with touch yyy and edited it manually. Then I wanted to find this file (and others) via: find ~/ -type f -mtime 1 …

Jun 1, 2018 · Like for find 's -mtime +7, m+7 would match on files whose age rounded down to the next integer number of days is strictly greater than 7, so would match on files that are 8 days …