Find a file with an unknown name

[doug schmidt]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> I want to find a file that was recently created.
>
> find <dir> -newerct '1 hour ago' -print

you can also find all files newer than file.txt.

find <dir> -newer file.txt -print



>
>> The content within the file is known, so I can grep for that. The
>> directory structure that contains the file is also known. The filename
>> is not known.
>
> grep -R "content" <dir>
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