Linux Tutorials: Find Command Examples and Use scnario

rajeshkumar created the topic: Find Linux Command Collection
Find files modified in the last 48 hours, and in current folder and one level below
I believe the correct command is `find -maxdepth 2 -type f -mtime -2
• maxdepth: will tell find to only search in the current folder
• type: will tell find to only list files and not directories
• mtime: will tell find to only list the files modified in the last 24 hours

To find all files modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in a particular specific directory and its sub-directories:
find /directory_path -mtime -1 –print

To find all files with regular file types only, and modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in current directory and its sub-directories:
find /directory_path -type f -mtime -1 –print
find . -type f -mtime -1 –print

To find all files that are modified today only (since start of day only, i.e. 12 am), in current directory and its sub-directories:
touch -t `date +%m%d0000` /tmp/$$
find /tmefndr/oravl01 -type f -newer /tmp/$$
rm /tmp/$$
The first command can be modified to specify other date and time, so that the commands will return all files that have changed since that particular date and time.
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