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9.7. The Times That find Finds

The times that go with the find operators -mtime , -atime, and -ctime often aren't documented very well. The times are in days:

Got that? Then you should see that -atime -2 and -atime 1 are both true on files that have been accessed between 48 and 24 hours ago. (-atime -2 is also true on files accessed 24 hours ago or less.)

For more exact comparisons, use find -newer with touch (Section 9.8).

-- JP



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