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bobpaul
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 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: Find -ctime shows too many results [Solved] |
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I'm working on a backup script that copies server archives off our backup server and onto a removable hard drive. Since we do this weekly with rotation, I only want backups created within the last 7 days to show up. I'm using the command:
| Code: | | find /mnt/backups -ctime -7 | grep -- 'Full' |
to find all full backups made within the last 7 days. This has worked fine until recently when it's given me 1 extra file:
| Code: | # ls -l | grep UserData
-rwxrw---- 1 administrator users 79G Jul 15 05:50 UserData_Full- W3.bkf
-rwxrw---- 1 administrator users 72G Jun 20 04:13 UserData_Full-W4.bkf |
Here you can see that only 1 of these files is <= 7 days old. However, executing the find command like in the script shows.
| Code: | # find . -ctime -7 | grep -- 'Full'
./UserData_Full-W3.bkf
./UserData_Full-W4.bkf |
If I lower the date down to 5 days, then it returns the expected results
| Code: | # find . -ctime -5 | grep -- 'Full'
./UserData_Full-W3.bkf |
28 is clearly a bigger number than 7, yet the file still shows. Does anyone know why this might be returning this result? Is there somewhere else in the filesystem that a date would be stored that find is reading but ls -l isn't? We're using ReiserFs without XAttr support. Since this is a date related issue, today is Jul 17 local time.
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nixnut
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Portage & Programming to Other Things Gentoo.
Doesn't look portage related, so moved here.
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catam
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| Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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ls by default shows mtime.
try
# ls -lc | grep UserData
to see ctime
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Genone
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| Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Any specific reason you use ctime instead of mtime? (note that ctime is not the creation time, see `info coreutils touch`). |
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