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  1. linux - Explaining the 'find -mtime' command - Stack Overflow

    Sep 1, 2014 · -mtime n The primary shall evaluate as true if the file modification time subtracted from the initialization time, divided by 86400 (with any remainder discarded), is n. Interestingly, the description …

  2. Understanding find with atime, ctime, and mtime

    Dec 19, 2019 · So, I understand the difference between the three ideas in the title. atime -- access time = last time file opened mtime -- modified time = last time file contents was modified ctime -- changed …

  3. Why does find -mtime +1 only return files older than 2 days?

    I'm struggling to wrap my mind around why the find interprets file modification times the way it does. Specifically, I don't understand why the -mtime +1 doesn't show files less than 48 hours old....

  4. ubuntu - Explain to a beginner the meaning of -mtime in simple …

    Mar 27, 2024 · Is that dash in "-mtime" in the subject a typo, or did you mean to signify something with it? -mtime is a condition predicate in find, but you seem to be asking about the different timestamps.

  5. bash - find -mtime files older than 1 hour - Stack Overflow

    find -mtime files older than 1 hour [duplicate] Asked 17 years, 1 month ago Modified 5 months ago Viewed 236k times

  6. ctime, atime, and mtime - How to interpret them? - Stack Overflow

    Dec 18, 2014 · I am writing a program in Python that requires comparison of atime, mtime, and ctime of several directories. For this purpose I am using os.stat("my_directory/"). What I get as a result is a …

  7. How do I get file creation and modification date/times?

    What's the best cross-platform way to get file creation and modification dates/times, that works on both Linux and Windows?

  8. linux - Get mtime of specific file using Bash? - Stack Overflow

    Jan 23, 2011 · I am well aware of being able to do find myfile.txt -mtime +5 to check if my file is older than 5 days or not. However I would like to fetch mtime in days of myfile.txt and store it into a variable...

  9. What is the difference between file modification time and file changed ...

    Sep 17, 2008 · mtime is modification time - contents have changed. ctime is status change time - perms and ownership as well as contents. Wikipedia says: * mtime: time of last modification (ls -l), * ctime: …

  10. unix - difference between mtime +0 and mtime 0 - Stack Overflow

    Apr 2, 2015 · So i used the command `find target -mtime 0 -exec chmod 644 {} \;` I want to really get hole of difference between usage of +0 , 0 . Does 0 only signified between now and 24 hr while +0 is …