Q. I don’t remember where I saved pdf and text files under Linux. I have downloaded files from internet a few months ago. How do I find my pdf files?<\/p>\n
A. You need to use find command. Each file has three time stamps, which record the last time that certain operations were performed on the file:
\n[a] access (read the file’s contents) – atime<\/p>\n
[b] change the status (modify the file or its attributes) – ctime<\/p>\n
[c] modify (change the file’s contents) – mtime<\/p>\n
You can search for files whose time stamps are within a certain age range, or compare them to other time stamps.<\/p>\n
You can use -mtime option. It returns list of file if the file was last accessed N*24 hours ago. For example to find file in last 2 months (60 days) you need to use -mtime +60 option.<\/p>\n
So to find text files that were last modified 60 days ago, use Display content of file on screen that were last modified 60 days ago, use Count total number of files using wc command You can also use access time to find out pdf files. Following command will print the list of all pdf file that were accessed in last 60 days: List all mp3s that were accessed exactly 10 days ago: There is also an option called -daystart. It measure times from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago. So, to list the all mp3s in your home directory that were accessed yesterday, type the command Where,<\/p>\n Read man page of find command for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Q. I don’t remember where I saved pdf and text files under Linux. I have downloaded files from internet a few months ago. How do I find my pdf files? A. You need to use find command. Each file has three time stamps, which record the last time that certain operations were performed on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kategerisiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n$ find \/home\/you -iname \"*.txt\" -mtime -60 -print<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ find \/home\/you -iname \"*.txt\" -mtime -60 -exec cat {} \\; <\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ find \/home\/you -iname \"*.txt\" -mtime -60 | wc -l<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ find \/home\/you -iname \"*.pdf\" -atime -60 -type -f<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ find \/home\/you -iname \"*.mp3\" -atime 10 -type -f<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ find \/home\/you -iname \"*.mp3\" -daystart -type f -mtime 1 <\/code><\/p>\n\n