How to find files older than certain year or minute in Linux
In some cases, we want to find files that older than certain year , let say 1 year, we can use the -mtime +1 argument. In other hand, if we want to find files that older than certain minute, let say 1 minute, we can use -mmin +1 argument.
man find
find the following statement
-mmin n
File’s data was last modified n minutes ago.
-mtime n
File’s data was last modified n*24 hours ago. See the comments for
-atime to understand how rounding affects the interpretation of file mod?
ification times.
Find files that older than 1 year
find . -mtime +1
Find files that older than 1 minute
find . -mmin +1
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lol, this post is completely wrong. -mtime is days, not year. you didn’t even read the manpage you pasted…
You should really correct or remove this post. It contains incorrect information and may lead the stray googler to error. By the very definition you’ve posted from the man page, above, mtime represents modification n*24 hrs ago (ie, mtime represents _day_, not _year_).
i think you are mistaken, the:
find . -mtime +1
is for finding files which are older than 1 day.