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Hi all, I manage to list files in long listing by time last modified and starting with 'N": ls -lt |grep N Can I know how to list files that are newer than 10 days? And also, how to find files that have less than 2 links? Thank you.

Name: David Perry
Date: January 7, 2003 at 06:23:54 Pacific

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1) find . -mtime -10 2) the number of links is represent in the second column of ls -l. Check the man page on ls for os specifics.

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Yeah, got it. Thanks a lot!! However, if I have to list the files that have less than 2 links, what is the command to use?

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Name: David Perry
Date: January 8, 2003 at 07:46:05 Pacific

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the number of links is represented by the second space delimited column in the output of ls -l

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Name: Frank
Date: January 9, 2003 at 01:34:46 Pacific

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Hi Siow, you can try: find . -mtime -10 -ls | while read a link rest do if [ "$link" -le 2 ] then echo $a $link $rest fi done Have Fun Frank

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