Help With find

[podsds]

I am using the find command to gather files for archives using the -mtime option. I have wrriten the script it works well, but now I want to add another feature without too much rewite ... so I am looking for a way to find all files >= 0 when using -mtime. Looking at the man page ... this does not seem to be an option ... or is it?

Any ideas?



# ll
total 24
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 3260 Apr 9 09:04 TEMPLATE.SH
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 8060 Apr 9 09:29 archive_log.sh


# find /sysadmin/script -name *.\* -mtime +0 -exec ls -l {} \;


# find /sysadmin/script -name *.\* -mtime 0 -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 3260 Apr 9 09:04 /sysadmin/script/common/TEMPLATE.SH
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 8060 Apr 9 09:29 /sysadmin/script/common/archive_log.sh


#


# find /sysadmin/script -name *.\* -mtime -0 -exec ls -l {} \;

 

[ZaSter]

Find -mtime n looks for files with data that was last modified n*24 hours ago. Using a -number is looking for files that have modification dates that are in the future. Seems that this would never find anything, but have seen computers that were installed with a bad time sync master that resulted in all of the installed files having timestamp dates in a year after 2399! One of the symptoms of this was that every incremental backups of the systems were always as large as the original full backup!

 

[JAFrank]

So you want to find every file older than right now? Why not just touch a file and then use the -newer option?

touch /tmp/TimeNow
find /sysadmin/script -name *.\* -newer /tmp/TimeNow  -exec ls -l {} \;

Wouldn't that work?

Allen

 

[podsds]

To ZaSter (TechnicalUser) ...
I don't think that's my problem here. Thanks

To JAFrank (TechnicalUser) ...

The -newer option would work, but ... there is always a but ...
I am trying to retrofit a new option into a script that was coded for different purpose and don't want to rework it that much. The newer option would force me to test if I am archiving an active directory where I want to capture currently created files or just archiving a directory where the only interest is archiving aged log files.

Thanks

 

[JAFrank]

I'm confused....How are you determining which directory to archive under your current system?

What exactly are you trying to determine from the -mtime +0?

Allen

 

[podsds]

Well ... I wrote a script to locate files older than somevariable days, -mtime +$AGE, see initial thread ... first I tar up & gzip the files, then I remove the based on -mtine +${REMOVE_AGE} I am using this to get rid of log log files.

Then I had a thought ... I could use this script to keep a tar achive of all my sysadmin scripts by passing 0 as the AGE and 999 as the REMOVE_AGE, but I noticed that file created the sameday as the script runs are not picked up so ...

Hope this helps.