Write a command to find all of the files which have been
accessed within the last 30 days.

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Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days...

Answer / pk

find / -type f -atime -30 > November.files &

This command will find all the files under root, which is
"/", with file type is file. "-atime -30" will give all the
files accessed less than 30 days ago. And the output will
put into a file call November.files.

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Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days...

Answer / diksha kakkar

the command is - find . -mtime -30 -print

Here you are telling find to list the files that were
modified with in last 30 days. You can increase the span of
time that "find" will report back on or go to a more
restricted time period.

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Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days...

Answer / sathyasen

ff -a -30 -u /dev/hd0

This displays the path name, i-node number, and owner's
user name (the -u flag) of each file on the /dev/hd0 device
that has been modified within the last 30 days ( -m -30).

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Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days...

Answer / jyoti pruthi

find / -atime -30

Here,
/ is for root directory
-atime is for access time
-30 is for within 30 days

It will give the details of the file that have been accessed
within the last 30 days.

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Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days...

Answer / guest

ls -lt |grep $date <=30

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