how to find files less than a day old?

[Noel Jones]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:11:45 -0600 (CST), Brian John
<brianjohn at fusemail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John
> > <brianjohn at fusemail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files.
> Basically I
> > > want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an
> > > hour or so old and put them in one file.
> > >
> > > This is what I am using so far:
> > >
> > > find . -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cat > temp.txt
> > >
> > > However, this only grabs files that are less than a day old, so I get
> some
> > > files returned that I don't want.  I tried using -0.5 instead of -1
> and it
> > > didn't work.  How can I accomplish this?
> > >
> >
> >
> > find . -mtime -1h -type f ....
> >
> > man find
> >
> >
> > --
> > Noel Jones
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> I read the man page and didn't see that.  It doesn't appear to work on the
> box that I am ssh-ing to.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is not a
> FreeBSD box that I am connected to.  I think it may be a Solaris 9 box.
> Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris?
> 

Maybe the solaris find command supports the -newer option.  I think
-newer is more widely supported, and likely to be available on
Solaris.

If necessary, you could then create a reference file using touch with
the proper time stamp on it.  You can do this automatically within a
script, using the date command to figure out the current time.  You
can calculate the time one hour ago by using a command something like
TZ={your timezone + 1}  date 


-- 
Noel Jones