linux find file modiffied past exact hour

07
2014-07
  • Questioner

    I would like to find files that are modiffied past exact hour. example:

    File             Time Modified             
test1.log             14.45PM   
test2.log             15.01PM            
test3.log             15.15PM

    So when i run the find fuction at 15.30PM I want it to display only

    • test2.log
    • test3.log

    Currently my code is 

    find /root/Desktop/test/ -type f -mmin -60

    this will display

    • test1.log
    • test2.log
    • test3.log

    I want it to display 15:00PM onwrds file not 1 hour from 15:30 possible?

    • Answers
  • tripleee

    Change the -60 to however many minutes past sharp the time is.

    find /root/Desktop/test/ -type f -mmin -$(date +%M)

    The date command formats its output based on the current time and the format string +%M produces the minutes field of the current time.


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  • hekevintran

    I have a project directory that contains source code and subdirectories of source code. I want to use the Unix program find to search recursively for the names of files of certain extensions. The versions of find on Linux and Mac OS X behave differently.

    # Works in Linux
find . -type f -regex ".*\.\(py\|html\)$"

# Neither of these works in Mac OS X
find . -type f -regex ".*\.\(py\|html\)$"
find . -type f -regex ".*\.(py|html)$"

    How do I write this command so that it will run on Mac OS X (and hopefully on Linux too)?


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  • Peter Mortensen

    Mac OS X uses BSD find and most Linux distributions come with GNU find. I believe you can install GNU findutils onto Mac OS X. I don't have a Mac handy, but I am sure it was available in MacPorts.

    Looking at the BSD find man page I could make a wild guess and suggest you try looking at the -E option to enable the modern regular expression library.

  • Debilski

    The following work with BSD find on OS X.

    find -E . -type f -regex ".*\.(py|html)$"

find . -type f | grep -e ".*\.\(py\|html\)$"