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dilbert
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Jul 13, 2014, 3:38 PM

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how to find a certain file : with the terminal -	Can't Post

how to find a file that i have created yesterday ( note - it is a text-file)

i can use the following techniques on terminal

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find / -type f -exec grep "xxx" {} /dev/null \;

or this one

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find / -type f -print | pgrep "string to find"

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martin@linux-70ce:~/osmosis> find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H "Olympus vg 160"

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find / -maxdepth 2 -type f ! -path '/proc/*' ! -path '/dev/*' -exec grep "xxx" {} +

- all the way seem to be good - but i do not find the certain file.

now i want to perform a search by time -

question: is this possible to do this with the terminal.

Laurent_R
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Jul 15, 2014, 9:51 AM

Post #2 of 2 (667 views)

Re: [dilbert] how to find a certain file : with the terminal - [In reply to]	Can't Post

This is not a Unix forum, but anyway, did you look at the '-name' option of find? It is probably what you need.

Something like this (can't test right now on my mobile device):

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find . -name file.txt -print

Search for (options)

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