[bugs #11668] [wishlist] FreeBSD extensions for time specification.

[Andreas Metzler]

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                 Summary: [wishlist] FreeBSD extensions for time
specification.
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ametzler
            Submitted on: Don 20.01.2005 um 21:55
                Category: find
                Severity: 5 - Average
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Andreas Metzler
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None

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FreeBSD's find supports a number extensions for specifying time/datee that
could be useful:



-atime n[smhdw]



find accepts not only plain numbers but also numbers with units, e.g. -atime
-90s, searching for files accessed during the last 90 seconds.



[obviously this also works for -mtime and -ctime]

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-newerXY file

             True if the current file has a more recent last access time

             (X=a), change time (X=c), or modification time (X=m) than the

             last access time (Y=a), change time (Y=c), or modification time

             (Y=m) of file.  In addition, if Y=t, then file is instead inter-

             preted as a direct date specification of the form understood by

             cvs(1).  Note that -newermm is equivalent to -newer.

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This sounds like featuritis, but the case with Y=t could be useful as it adds
the possibility to specify exact dates like -newermt -'2005-12-24' which we
are currently missing.



Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find for complete
documentation.



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