RE: find question

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

Hello,

The find's atime option seems a bit sketchy.
I've tried find <dir> -atime 3 -print and nothing prints out.
but when i do :
find <dir> -atime 2 -print
it prints stuff out.

If it's been accessed in 2 days, it's been accessed in 3 days right?

Unless it means _exactly_ 2 or 3 days, in which case, it's not a great 
feature since i have to check if directories have been accessed in 60 days!

Any suggestions or comments?

TIA

> From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>
> To: Andrew Kae <jiggyman77@hotmail.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: find question
> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:47:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >
> > dir1 and dir2 are web sites themselves.
> >
> > I want to know if anyone has accessed dir1 within the last 60 days.  
> I've
> > been using find like this:
> > $ find dir1 -atime 60 -print
> >
> > Is this the correct command?
>
> looks sane, although I think atime is only set on files.  Also, some people
> turn off atime writing for a speed gain.
>
> > Is there an easier or alternative way to find this out without looking 
> at
> > the logs?
>
> there are log analyzers out there.  They give all kinds of great stats.  
> look
> on freshmeat.net
>
> > How does "find" check on this anyway?
> >
>
> each file on the hard drive has data stored with it about its size, 
> permisions,
> time created, etc.  This is the same data ls prints.  To see what find is
> doing, read the man page for stat.

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