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find shell command

Find files older than given no. of days

To find files older than 30 days use:

find . -mtime +30 -daystart

Careful To automatically delete files older than 30 days use:

find . -mtime +30 -daystart -delete

To find files modified within last 5-6 days use:

find . -mtime +5 -mtime -6

There is also atime and ctime for access times and change times respectively. mtime used in above examples is for modification times.