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Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)



Paul Goyette wrote:

> I often find myself (no pun intended!) wanting to determine which files 
> were accessed before/since a particular timestamp.  There currently 
> exist the -{a,c}{newer,min,time} primitives, but none of these allow me 
> to say "since today at 5 AM".
> 
> I'd like to suggest adding new primitives
> 
>  	-asince "timestamp"
>  	-csince "timestamp"
> 
> where the timestamp argument would be converted to an actual time using 
> parsedate(3).

And -msince ?

> 
> Does anyone else think this is a good idea?  Is there anyone who would 
> object to adding these primitives?

Sounds useful!

Cheers,
Simon.


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