[Gllug] Most Recent File

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Tue Nov 22 09:33:47 UTC 2005


Steve Nelson wrote:
> 
> One of my favourite tricks is to find a file within a specific period
> of time... say in the last 48 hours:
> 
> touch -t 11200845 timestamp
> find . -newer timestamp

Now that's clever - I use -newer a lot, but never thought of using 
"touch -t" to temporarily make me an arbitrary timestamped file.

Ta very much.
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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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