[SLUG] ls files amended in the last five minutes

[Stephen O'Neill]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:

>Did I miss a response, or does no-one know why my command
>
>find / -amin -5 > myRecentFiles.txt
>
>which is supposed to list files amended in the last five minutes
>should list thousands of files
>  
>
Does it list any that _weren't_ modified in the last 5 minutes? If it 
does then I don't know; if it doesn't then it must just be sympomatic of 
all the services doing funky things.

>Ah. That file was apparently amended on the 25 November 2011. Any idea
>what might have given my system such prescience? I've not changed the
>date since I set Linux up.
>  
>
Good one. Linux knows.

Steve