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Re: how to reproduce BSD's 'find -newerct' on Linux?



Checkout:

find . -mmin 5

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:24:35AM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use FreeBSD all day on servers at work, and use Debian on my system at
> home.
> 
> There is one BSDism that I really like and would like to reproduce on
> Linux.  On FreeBSD, I can use the following syntax, which means "find
> all the files in the current directory which have changed in the last 7 minutes":
> 
>  find . -newerct '5 min ago'
> 
> >From what I can tell from 'find' manpage, there is nothing quite like
> this in the 'find' installed on Debian. I can compare files to the
> change time over anothe file, but that seems kludgy compared to just
> being able to directly give the timespan you want. 

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