Get list of modified files in directory

Here is a command to get a list of modified files in a directory and subdirectories;

find . -type f -mtime -1 -exec ls -l {} \;

This command searches all files in directory and subdirectories (the find . )

The command is going to list all files (the ls -l) a day old (the -mtime -1), where mtime is the modified time.

Possible time units are as follows:

• s second
• m minute (60 seconds)
• h hour (60 minutes)
• d day (24 hours)
• w week (7 days)

Any number of units may be combined in the -mtime argument, for example, ‘-mtime -20d1h30m’ which can be altered to filter your search.

So if I wanted to get a directory of files that were initially modified say, 20 days ago but I knew I updated some of those files since. I use this command…

find . -type f -mtime -19d23h -exec ls -l {} \;