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Asked: 2011-03-12 01:34:12 +0800 CST

finding a file which was modified in last 10 minutes

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I am running this command to find out the files which were modified in last 10 minutes 

 find / -fstype local -mtime -10m

but it is giving following error each time

find: missing argument to `-mtime'

What is wrong with above?

bash find

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It is -mmin like 

    find / -fstype local -mmin -10
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  2. Use mmin instead of mtime which is only for hours.

    $ find / -fstype local -mmin -10
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  3. Gnu find seems to want -mtime argument as days

    File’s  data was last modified n*24 hours ago.

    See -mmin

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