Re: find -amin bug

[Dave Saunders]

Sorry for omitting this--I'm on a solaris 2.8 system

SunOS ... 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

using the gnu gcc 5.8 complier.

Dave Saunders


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Dave Saunders wrote:

> Folks,
>   I am trying to use the -amin option in 'find' to look at anything older
> than 8 hours (480 mins).
>   My command is:
>
>       find . -name "somename" -amin +480 -print
>
> But I keep coming up with nothing.
>
>
> Looking at your docs, I see this:
>
>  - Test: -amin N
>  - Test: -cmin N
>  - Test: -mmin N
>      True if the file was last accessed (or its status changed, or it
>      was modified) N minutes ago.  These tests provide finer
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>      granularity of measurement than `-atime' et al.  For example, to
>      list files in `/u/bill' that were last read from 2 to 6 hours ago:
>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>           find /u/bill -amin +2 -amin -6
>
> (The documentation is not consistent with respect to time units.)
>
>
> When I use -amin +420 (7 hrs), I get the expected count.  When I use
> -amin +480, I get no hits.
>
> When I try '-amin +480 -amin -1440' (in the spirit of the example), I also
> get no hits.
>
> Dave Saunders
> UVa
>
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