How to Show Files from Last 2 Days on Mounted NTFS System

bashcommand linefind

What's exactly the command to show files younger than 2 days? I thought about something like this:

$ find / -mtime -2

…but I'm not sure how to print the date of the found files. My target is to find file on a mounted ntfs system which are new or changed within the last days.

Moreover it would be very helpful to sort the results from the newst to the oldest. Is that possible?

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Files created or modified less than 48 hours ago
sorted from the newest to the oldest:

find / -mtime -2 -printf "%T@" -ls | sort

I have found %T@ from man find: last modification time (seconds since epoch)

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On recent versions of find (e.g. GNU 4.4.0) you can use the -newermt option. For example, to find all files that have been modified on the 2011-02-08

$ find /var/www/html/dir/ -type f -name "*.php" -newermt 2011-02-08 ! -newermt 2011-02-09

Also note that you don't need to pipe into grep to find php files because find can do that for you in the -name option.

Take a look at this SO answer for more suggestions: How to use 'find' to search for files created on a specific date?

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Yes, -mtime 14 means exactly 14. See the top of that section in the GNU find manual (labelled "TESTS") where it says "Numeric arguments can be specified as [...]":

Numeric arguments can be specified as

+n     for greater than n,

-n     for less than n,

n      for exactly n.

Note that "less than" means "strictly less than", so -mtime -14 means "last modified at the current time of day, 13 days ago or less" and -mtime +14 means "last modified at the current time of day, 15 days ago or more".

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