Find Files Modified Over 1 Hour Ago But Less Than 3 Days

Find files modified over 1 hour ago but less than 3 days

Find has -mtime and -mmin:

find . -mtime +3 -mmin -60

From the find manual:

Numeric arguments can be specified as:

+n for greater than n

-n for less than n

n for exactly n

find -mtime files older than 1 hour

What about -mmin?

find /var/www/html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mmin +59 -type f -name "*.mp3" \
    -exec rm -f {} \;

From man find:

-mmin n
        File's data was last modified n minutes ago.

Also, make sure to test this first!

... -exec echo rm -f '{}' \;
          ^^^^ Add the 'echo' so you just see the commands that are going to get
               run instead of actual trying them first.

Find the files that have been changed in 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 -ls

Should be to your liking

The - before 1 is important - it means anything changed one day or less ago.
A + before 1 would instead mean anything changed at least one day ago, while having nothing before the 1 would have meant it was changed exacted one day ago, no more, no less.

Find files created 1 hour ago

I think what you want is

find . -cmin +60 -exec ls -al {} \;

It will list all the files in current directory created more than 60 minutes agp.

The '+' in the '+60' means more than 60 minutes ago while a '-' in the '-60' means less than 60 minutes ago.

Using find to locate files modified within yesterday

Use find with mtime and daystart, it will find files modified 1*24 hours ago, starting calculations from midnight (daystart):

find dir -daystart -mtime 1

Get all files modified in last 30 days in a directory

A couple of issues

• You're not limiting it to files, so when it finds a matching directory it will list every file within it.
• You can't use > in -exec without something like bash -c '... > ...'. Though the > will overwrite the file, so you want to redirect the entire find anyway rather than each -exec.
• +30 is older than 30 days, -30 would be modified in last 30 days.
• -exec really isn't needed, you could list everything with various -printf options.

Something like below should work

find . -type f -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} \; > last30days.txt

Example with -printf

find . -type f -mtime -30 -printf "%M %u %g %TR %TD %p\n" > last30days.txt

This will list files in format "permissions owner group time date filename". -printf is generally preferable to -exec in cases where you don't have to do anything complicated. This is because it will run faster as a result of not having to execute subshells for each -exec. Depending on the version of find, you may also be able to use -ls, which has a similar format to above.

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