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Re: Is there a log file of ...?

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Is there a log file of ...?
Date 2018-09-08 12:20 +0200
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On 09/07/2018 09:53 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 07 Sep 2018 at 14:46:31 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
>>[snip]
>> In the appropriate time period I know that there were no more than a
>> dozen files created/destroyed/renamed.
> 
> This would be very useful in future if you were unsure of the name and
> location of the file sporting its new name. One way to locate those
> files is like this:
> 
> $ find / -type f -cmin -2880 -a -cmin +1440 -print | less
> 
> will find files whose status information was modified between 24 and
> 48 hours ago. If you renamed a file, that should affect the ctime.
> You can choose your numbers appropriately and focus the search by
> changing / to something more specific, or even adding -name \*.ext
> where ext is the known extension.

That's what I want. Thank you.

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Is there a log file of ...? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-07 21:50 +0200
  Re: Is there a log file of ...? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-07 22:10 +0200
  Re: Is there a log file of ...? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-09-07 22:10 +0200
  Re: Is there a log file of ...? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-08 05:00 +0200
    Re: Is there a log file of ...? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-08 12:20 +0200
  Re: Is there a log file of ...? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2018-09-08 15:10 +0200
    Re: Is there a log file of ...? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-09-08 15:30 +0200
      Re: Is there a log file of ...? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-09-08 15:40 +0200
        Re: Is there a log file of ...? Michael Wagner <wagner_m_bremen@web.de> - 2018-09-08 18:00 +0200
          Re: Is there a log file of ...? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-09-08 18:20 +0200
            Re: Is there a log file of ...? Michael Wagner <wagner_m_bremen@web.de> - 2018-09-08 21:50 +0200
              Re: Is there a log file of ...? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-09-09 08:00 +0200
          Re: Is there a log file of ...? Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-08 18:20 +0200
          Re: Is there a log file of ...? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-08 18:40 +0200

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