Paul, On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:50:36PM -0500, Paul graf wrote: > I would like to study the 'man find' command with another person > 's who are interested in the command. Finding files that have been > modified and sent to folders on a certain date in time. Do you know the date, or the folders? Find does not take an argument specifying the date (such as 4/1/2013), but it takes a 'how long ago' argument expressed in hours or minutes (mtime/mmin). Now, we need to find out how many minutes ago was "4/1/2013 18:05" . For this we use 'date': date -d "4/1/2013 18:05" +%s This invocation returns how many seconds passed between 1/1/1970 and the desired date. To find out how many seconds ago it was, you subtract that date from today's date: echo \( `date +%s` - `date -d "4/1/2013 18:05" +%s` \) \/ 60 | bc When I just ran that command, I got back 35013. Given that 24 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes = 34560, the number seems to be in the ballpark ;) Now, we can plug that number in the call to find: find /path/to/top/directory -mtime -35013 > The 'find' > command is very powerful I believe. I would enjoy a workshop and to > listen and be able to talk with others 'such as yourself'. The best chance would be to go to the Penguins Unbound meetings and ask if somebody can explain or show some commands to you. Second best is to ask questions on the mailing list. Most people are friendly and helpful but to help them help you, please read: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (Thank you for the aside, but it will be a while until I'm back in Minnesota.) > I am sorry > to not send my message clearly I have no formal education. It's never too late to learn. Cheers, florin -- Sent from my other microwave oven. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130426/c604bd2c/attachment.pgp>