Question

My dir sturcture that looks like

x

   /log

   /bin

I am giving this command from dir- x/bin

find ../log -type f -name \*.log  -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \; 

(to find and display list of files older than 90 days.) and it doesn’t display anything.

Whereas if i execute same command in dir- x/log

find . -type f -name \*.log  -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \; 

it gives me a list of files older than 90 days.

Can you please help?

Answer 1

Recall that paths are relative.

If you have a dir sturcture that looks like

 x
   /log
   /bin

AND your’re in x/bin then you need to give the relative path to x/log, ie

 pwd
 x/bin
find ../x/log -type f -name \*.log  -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \;

I hope this helps.