Get all files modified in last 30 days in a directory

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CentOS  Need to find files modified in last 30 days to see if any of them have been infected with malware   I tried this   root server   home someuser public html    find   -mtime  30  -exec ls -l     gt  last30days txt      But instead of the last 30 days  it seems to have found everything  22 000 files

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A couple of issues   You re not limiting it to files  so when it finds a matching directory it will list every file within it   You can t use  gt  in -exec without something like bash -c       gt        Though the  gt  will overwrite the file  so you want to redirect the entire find anyway rather than each -exec    30 is older than 30 days  -30 would be modified in last 30 days  -exec really isn t needed  you could list everything with various -printf options     Something like below should work  find   -type f -mtime -30 -exec ls -l        gt  last30days txt   Example with -printf  find   -type f -mtime -30 -printf   M  u  g  TR  TD  p n   gt  last30days txt   This will list files in format  permissions owner group time date filename   -printf is generally preferable to -exec in cases where you don t have to do anything complicated  This is because it will run faster as a result of not having to execute subshells for each -exec  Depending on the version of find  you may also be able to use -ls  which has a similar format to above

[find] Get all files modified in last 30 days in a directory

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