Use of the find command (was: Recent Documents )

[Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset]

Thank You Jonathan!!

The problem is that today I was asked for that feature in the place that I
work (I convinced all of them to use Lubuntu :) !!  and didn't know what to
answer... searched quickly in google "recend documment on lxde" and found
nothing really usable by average user

2012/4/29 Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>

> On 04/28/2012 09:54 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to get a "recent documents" somehow on Lubuntu? I think
> this
> > would be a cool goal to achieve for 12.10 !
>
> > Meanwhile... heeeeeeeeeeeelp!!
>
>
> The command line is your (powerful) friend.
>
> To find all files modified in the last 7 days in your home directory,
> try opening a shell (e.g. bash in LXTerminal) and doing
>
>  find ~ -type f -mtime -7
>
> If necessary, you can even do this (slowly!) for the whole machine,
> using something like
>
>  sudo find / -type f -mtime -7
>
> but the list of files you (eventually!) get back could be rather long.
>
> Perhaps more usefully, if you know the "file extension" of the file you
> are looking for, you can specify it, so for a list of all Gnumeric
> spreadsheets modified in the last 7 days in your home directory, try
>
>  find ~ -type f -mtime -7 -name "*.gnumeric"
>
> and so forth.
>
> This approach is not all pretty and GUI, but it works well if you need
> to find files which you edited recently :)
>
> Hoping this provides the "heeeeeeeeeeeelp" you need :)
>
> Jonathan
>



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