Find everything updated in the last minute recursively within the current directory and sort by time, newest at the bottom.

ls -lF -darth `find . -mmin -3`

Provides a recursive time ordered list of the current directory over the last 3 minutes. Excluding zero byte files: ls -lF -darth `find . -size +0 -mmin -3` For the last day's files, change "-mmin -3" to "-mtime -1": ls -lF -darth `find . -size +0 -mtime -1`

Sample Output

-rw-r--r--  1 louie louie 9.9K Mar 22 11:48 ./.xsession-errors
-rw-r--r--  1 louie louie 1.3M Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies
-rw-r--r--  1 louie louie  16K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies-journal
-rw-------  1 louie louie 6.3M Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-musicmanager/ServerDatabase.db
-rw-r--r--  1 louie louie 357K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-musicmanager/google-musicmanager.log
-rw-------  1 louie louie 5.0K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-musicmanager/Peer.db
drwx------  2 louie louie 4.0K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-musicmanager/
-rw-------  1 louie louie  19M Mar 22 11:50 ./.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/data_2
-rw-------  1 louie louie  11K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-chrome/Default/TransportSecurity
drwx------ 20 louie louie 4.0K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-chrome/Default/
drwx------  7 louie louie 4.0K Mar 22 11:50 ./.config/google-chrome/
-rw-------  1 louie louie 9.1M Mar 22 11:50 ./.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/data_4
-rw-------  1 louie louie 513K Mar 22 11:50 ./.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/index
-rw-------  1 louie louie 165M Mar 22 11:50 ./.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/data_3
-rw-------  1 louie louie  16M Mar 22 11:50 ./.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/data_1
-rw-------  1 louie louie 1.5M Mar 22 11:50 ./.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/data_0

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By: UncleLouie

2014-03-22 16:52:20

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Find files that have been modified on your system in the past 60 minutes

Useful mainly for debugging or troubleshooting an application or system, such as X11, Apache, Bind, DHCP and others. Another useful switch that can be combined with -mmin, -mtime and so forth is -daystart. For example, to find files that were modified in the /etc directory only yesterday: sudo find /etc -daystart -mtime 1 -type f
This is sample output - yours may be different.
34

sudo find / -mmin 60 -type f

atoponce · 2009-03-01 23:03:31 1

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