Command-line Knowledge Base

Use `find` to search for folders/files based on modification date/time

To find all the files which are modified 50 days back.

find / -mtime 50

Find all files that were accessed in the last 50 days

find / -atime 50

Find all files that were modified between 50 to 100 days ago.

find / -mtime +50 –mtime -100

Find files modified within the last 1 hour.

find /home/bob -cmin -60

find / -mmin -60

find / -amin -60

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