This tutorial will help you to find files created or modified within X days. Here X means any number. Using the find command you can also search which is created or modified within X minutes.
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1. Search files created/modified within 30 days
Use this command to search all files created or modified within 30 days in /var/backup directory. Find provides the option -mtime to define number of days.
find /var/backup -type f -mtime +30
You can also search file created within 60 minutes (1 hour) using -mmin optiopn.
find /var/backup -type f -mmin +60
2. Search files with specific extension
You can also search file for a specific extension. For example to search all files with extension “.log” under /var/log directory.
find /var/log -name "*.log" -type f -mtime +30
Or search specific extension file created within 60 minutes (1 hour).
find /var/log -name "*.log" -type f -mmin +60
The above command will show only files having a .log extension.