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Using linux commands , is there way to list files which are created an hour (or particular date) before ?.

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you can use the find command along with -mmin and -mtime flags. For example to list *.txt files in Downloads folder modified more than 30 days ago use this:

find $HOME/Downloads -name  '*.txt' -mtime +30

+ implies more than

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  • Valid answer, but a note to Original Question: this depends on the file metadata stored with on the filesystem. This can be reset by the touch command. In short, you can never know 100% when it was changed.
    – Rich Homolka
    May 20, 2011 at 23:10
  • @Rich. Thanks for sharing the note. I agree. In my reqs, I wanted to cleanup iso files built doing last compliations. it takes so much space. So, I wanted to cleanup everytime after successful completion of build.
    – sudurais
    May 22, 2011 at 5:12
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The find command's -mmin and -mtime predicates can select files based on their mtime.

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