Re^3: File::Find seems grossly inefficient for performing simple file tasks

[RichardK]

I read that find man page too and I'm still not sure exactly what it does!

But, I'd interpret that to mean -cmin 7 is changed exactly 7 minutes ago ( which seems a bit odd ).

Anyway, back to the point :), if you look at stat you'll see that atime,mtime,ctime are in seconds since the epoch and the pod for File::Find::Rule says :-

       stat tests
           The following "stat" based methods are provided: "dev", "in
+o", "mode", "nlink",
           "uid","gid", "rdev", "size", "atime",
           "mtime", "ctime", "blksize", and "blocks".
           
           See "stat" in perlfunc for details.

           Each of these can take a number of targets, which will foll
+ow Number::Compare semantics.

            $rule->size( 7 );         # exactly 7
            $rule->size( ">7Ki" );    # larger than 7 * 1024 * 1024 by
+tes
            $rule->size( ">=7" )
                 ->size( "<=90" );    # between 7 and 90, inclusive
            $rule->size( 7, 9, 42 );  # 7, 9 or 42

So, you can write a mtime rule to do whatever you need.

I'm guessing mtime but these things are a specific to your OS and file system so you'll have to play around a bit to see what works for you.