Hi all,

I need to find a list of files that have been modifed within the last 30 minutes. This seems like such a simple thing but I am having trouble doing this.

The mtime value on the find command only evaluates by the day, ie.+1 is within the last 24 hours, +2 is within the last 48 hours, etc. I couldn't find and options on the ls command which would work either.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

man touch - pay attention to the '-t' option
man find - pay attention to the '-newer' option

I saw that command but that requires you pass it a file as a value to test against. I want to list files up to 30 minutes OLDER than the current time? Any more hints....???

HINT:
create a file [/tmp/pivot.txt] with 'touch -t <time> /tmp/pivot.txt' where 'time' is 30 minutes BEHIND current time
use 'find -newer /tmp/pivot.txt' to list files created within the 30 mins window from 'current'

I am having a hard time figuring out how to code in a script to create a file (I can do that) and then check the current time (I can do that) but then determine the time for 30 minutes prior to the current time. Any ideas? Thank you so much.