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--- bash:find_files_with_modified_dates_in_the_future_and_fix [2019/05/13 16:26] – created genadmin
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+Sometimes, when working on a new machine or a machine with a screwy clock or incorrect TZ you can then have files modified in the future which breaks some things.
+To find the files modified in the future use
+<code>find ./ -type f -newermt "1 days"</code>
+Now to fix the files to NOW use
+<code>find ./ -type f -newermt "5 days"|xargs touch</code>
+You can use -d with touch to specify the date you want to use instead of now.
+How about finding all files that have not been modified for more than 20 years?
+<code>find ./ -type f -mtime +7300</code>
+The +7300 is 20*365 or 20 years. If you wanted to delete these files then -delete will do it. If you wanted to archive these files then output the filenames to a file with > filename.txt and then either sed that into cp commands or feed it into the cp.