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
Or within 5 days:
find somedir -ctime -5
To search recursively in the directory somedir for files changed changed / created / modified more than 1 days ago:
find somedir -ctime +1
Or more than 5 days ago:
find somedir -ctime +5
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
Or more than 2 weeks ago:
find somedir -mtime +14
Using this, I will try to find which images have been uploaded recently(within 7 days), by my users. And may be their size also.
find /public_html/upload/ -regex “\.gif|\.png|\.jpg|\.jpeg” -mtime -7
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