Re: find question

["Andrew Kae" <jiggyman77@hotmail.com>]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your support.  I have a few more questions =)

For reference, I am running Unix Sys V 4.0.

>    TESTS
>        Numeric arguments can be specified as
>
>        +n     for greater than n,
>
>        -n     for less than n,
>
>        n      for exactly n.

I find this to be a bit vague.
I want to check if a directory has been accessed withing 60 days.
So I do:
$ find <dir> -atime -60 -print
<dir>
some_file

I see that <dir> is always printed.  Does this mean the directory has been 
accessed but its files have not?  Or does find print the directory all the 
time?

Second, a question concerning the "+" option for find.
If I do something like
$ find <dir> -atime +60 -print

Is there a ceiling as to how long it checks after 60 days?  Is it until file 
creation?

If I access a file today,
$ find <dir> -atime +60 -print
should not print out that file because it hasn't been accessed in more than 
60 days, right?

Finally, say file_a is in <dir>
$ find <dir> -atime +10 -print
<dir>
$ find <dir> -atime +5 -print
<dir>
$ find <dir> -atime +1 -print
<dir>
file_a

Then this means it's been accessed in the last 4 days, right?

One last thing, does anyone know of a command to tell me last access date of 
a file?

Thank you for bearing with me on this

Drew
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