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In article <28300007@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>, kevinl@tisdec.tis.tandy.com writes:
> 	find . -ctime +1 -exec rm {} \;
> 
> 	This *should* work.  `-ctime' is for `create time', so the previous
> command should find all files with a create time greater than (from the `+')
> today.

Isn't is just marvellous how this old myth still propagates?

The `ctime' field in an inode is the INODE CHANGE TIME.
There has never been a `create time'.

If you read find(1) you will find that:

     -ctime n       Tests true if the file has been changed in n
                    days.

Note it says `change[d]' and not created.

One hopes that this is now clear.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.''  -- Rob Pike