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    looking for program that finds oldest files

    got a whole lot of video files spread among 100's of folders, wondering if Linux has a program that can scan the modification and view dates of them all, and just display what's been accessed most recently.
    And what hasn't been accessed in years?

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    Re: looking for program that finds oldest files

    Look here, please: http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/unix/findcmd.htm
    or here, under "2 Finding Files" is probably better
    Last edited by sidzen; September 22nd, 2010 at 03:56 PM.
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    Re: looking for program that finds oldest files

    bit complicated all that, was hoping there was software that could just simplify it all

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    Re: looking for program that finds oldest files

    bump

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    Re: looking for program that finds oldest files

    Code:
    find ~ -name '*.mp4' -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -k 6 > sortedlist.txt
    Use your favourite file editor to view the created list.
    Last edited by The Cog; September 26th, 2010 at 12:46 PM.

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