find . -ctime -14'-ctime -14' will be true for all files/dirs that have been changed in the last 14*24 hours. You can alter the behaviour by changing the modifier on the numerical input:
+n for greater than n,
-n for less than n,
n for exactly n.
This is mainly somewhere for me to dump interesting tidbits of tech info. Stuff that I may forget but will need again in the future. For a proper blog, visit my electronics blog (http://www.fangletronics.com) or my wife's pre-school crafty blog (http://www.filthwizardry.com).
Thursday, June 18, 2009
using find to catch up on what's changed
I came back from a two week vacation and needed to find out what had been updated/added/changed in that time in some shared project dirs. "find" was my friend. The following command gives a list of all files changed within the last two weeks.