"find" and {a,c,m}time

Jim Rosenberg jr at oglvee.UUCP
Fri Oct 14 05:05:07 AEST 1988


In article <170 at libove.UUCP> root at libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>Okay, so "find -?time 3 -print" should find all files ?'d within the
>last three days, right? Nope. To wit:

Gimme an R, Gimme a T, Gimme an F ...

You want e.g. find -mtime -3 -print
                          ^
                       **/ \**

This is pretty clearly documented, even though if you are using SCO no doubt
your man page for find(1) has been bowderlized to eliminate the original
(more or less):

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	The syntax is painful.
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