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Ionică Bizău
Asked: 2014-01-28 03:22:38 +0800 CST

Show recent modified/created files using Terminal

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Is there any command to display the recently modified/created files?

Which one...?

command-line

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

    find ${1} -type f | xargs stat --format '%Y :%y %n' 2>/dev/null | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2-

    See Find command

    Source:Linux

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  2. Check stat command:

    Usage:

    stat [options] filename ... ...

    e.g.

    stat /home/user/Docs/filename.txt

    To search for files, use find commands:

    e.g.

    find /to/target/directory* -mtime -1

    (the switch -mtime n show file's with data last modified n*24 hours ago, for -mtime -1 the files 1 day old will be shown)

    find /to/target/directory* -mmin 30

    will show files modified in last 30 minutes.

    Check for more options under TESTS in the manual pages (use man find in terminal). You can use other switches like -amin n (last accessed n minutes ago), -cmin (file's status was last changed n minutes ago), and others.

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  3. ls -t

    This will sort the list of files by modification time

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