I have a few Linux Red Hat Linux machines and I must find some files on them. The problem is that they have a lot of files and folders since 2004 year. And I don't know where exactly to look for these files.
Is there some terminal command with which I can select a specific time range. I want to see every file which is changed from last month (May) to now.
Answer
Yes, the find command can do this. It will take some experimentation and reading and re-reading the man page to get it to do what you want, but is amazing command. Below are 2 examples:
find . -type f -ctime -2 -print0 | xargs -0 tar -rvf ~/dev_customer_attributes.tar
find . -mmin -400 > /tmp/files.txt
The 1st find uses -type f to list only files. -type d for directories. -ctime -2 is for files with a created time less than 2 days old and then adds them to the tar archive. I can't remember from when I used this command or why.
The 2nd command checks for files and directories modified within the last 400 days and outputs that list to files.txt Here's a great info page I just found, too.
Example, In my ~ on my personal laptop are files as old as 2010. And lots that are newer, too. By running find . -ctime -1000 -ctime +600, I get listing like this:
./Pictures/Photos
./Pictures/Photos/2005
./Pictures/Photos/2005/08
./Pictures/Photos/2005/08/29
./Pictures/Photos/2005/08/29/DSCN1023.JPG
./Pictures/Photos/2009
./Pictures/Photos/2009/02
./Pictures/Photos/2009/02/23
./Pictures/Photos/2009/02/23/img_0001.jpg
./Pictures/Photos/2010
./Pictures/Photos/2010/01
./Pictures/Photos/2010/01/01
./Pictures/Photos/2010/01/01/DSCN2170.JPG
./Pictures/Photos/2010/01/01/DSCN2171.JPG
./Pictures/Photos/2010/06
./Pictures/Photos/2010/06/04
./Pictures/Photos/2010/06/04/img_0111.jpg
./Pictures/Photos/2010/06/04/img_0112.jpg
./Pictures/Webcam/2010-10-03-045227.jpg
./.mission-control
./.mission-control/accounts
./.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg
In this case, the Pictures folder had legacy items copied over from before 2010, but which happened with the 400 day period 600 days ago.
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