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One of the utility commands of Linux that you should know in the first day of your Linux learning seminar is find.

To search recursively in the directory somedir for files changed / created / modified within 1 day:

find somedir -ctime -1

To search recursively in the directory somedir for files changed changed / created / modified more than 1 days ago:

find somedir -ctime +1

To search recursively in the directory somedir for files modified within 1 day:

find somedir -mtime -1

To search recursively in the directory somedir for files modified more than 1 days ago:

find somedir -mtime +1

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