Lubuntu - script for "recently used" files

[vasa1]

I ran
sudo find * -ctime -1 -type f
...

What was your reasoning behind including sudo? My feeling is that one shouldn't sudo unless it is really needed.

Anyway, nice to see you got what you wanted

[sudodus]

What was your reasoning behind including sudo? My feeling is that one shouldn't sudo unless it is really needed.

Anyway, nice to see you got what you wanted

It was my suggestion, explained in post #4. I use it to be able to find files and directories, where the normal user account has no permission. (I don't think find will do any harm with root permissions.)

[vasa1]

It was my suggestion, explained in post #4. I use it to be able to find files and directories, where the normal user account has no permission. (I don't think find will do any harm with root permissions.)

Okay, got it. I don't have another user set up and wouldn't know about find accessing those files but I haven't needed sudo to find system files. And my comment was just about being more cautious because sudo persists for a while and not about sudo find, per se.

[vasa1]

Would this do the trick?

find -ctime -1 -type f -exec bash -c 'select f;do [[ -n $f ]]&&xdg-open "$f"||exit;done' _ '{}' +

Nice!

I combined it with your earlier code

find -L ~/D{esktop,ocuments,ownloads} -type f -atime -3

to get

find ~/{Documents,Desktop,Downloads,Music} -ctime -1 -type f -exec bash -c 'select f;do [[ -n $f ]]&&xdg-open "$f"||exit;done' _ '{}' +

[ofnuts]

Hoping someone might be able to write a little script which I can run from the console.

It would display the latest 15-20 files I've used. It would let me open the file by typing in the number of the file in the list generated.

Because I run LXDE in lubuntu, it doesn't have a separate "recently used" files option and the file manager consistently misses files I've opened lately.

Define "latest 15-20 files I've used" first. Even with "heavier" desktop environments, this only concerns files explicitly opened by the environment's own apps, and duly noted (in ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/, for instance). And these environments are somewhat heavier for a reason...