Find the files that have been changed in last 24 hours
To find all files modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in a particular specific directory and its sub-directories:
find /directory_path -mtime -1 -ls
Should be to your liking
The -
before 1
is important - it means anything changed one day or less ago.
A +
before 1
would instead mean anything changed at least one day ago, while having nothing before the 1
would have meant it was changed exacted one day ago, no more, no less.
Another, more humane way:
find /<directory> -newermt "-24 hours" -ls
or:
find /<directory> -newermt "1 day ago" -ls
or:
find /<directory> -newermt "yesterday" -ls
You can do that with
find . -mtime 0
From man find
:
[The] time since each file was last modified is divided by 24 hours and any remainder is discarded. That means that to match -mtime 0, a file will have to have a modification in the past which is less than 24 hours ago.
On GNU-compatible systems (i.e. Linux):
find . -mtime 0 -printf '%T+\t%s\t%p\n' 2>/dev/null | sort -r | more
This will list files and directories that have been modified in the last 24 hours (-mtime 0
). It will list them with the last modified time in a format that is both sortable and human-readable (%T+
), followed by the file size (%s
), followed by the full filename (%p
), each separated by tabs (\t
).
2>/dev/null
throws away any stderr output, so that error messages don't muddy the waters; sort -r
sorts the results by most recently modified first; and | more
lists one page of results at a time.