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#291419
findutils: Unable to use find to locate files that have dates in the future
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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>:
Bug#291419; Package findutils.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: findutils
Version: 4.1.20-4
Severity: wishlist
I have a system that has a bad clock and files get dates way off in the
future. Unfortunately, I'm unable to locate these files using find.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.1
Kernel Version: Linux ani 2.6.10 #2 SMP Thu Jan 6 18:35:37 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages findutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
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On 2005-01-20 Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> wrote:
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.1.20-4
> Severity: wishlist
> I have a system that has a bad clock and files get dates way off in the
> future. Unfortunately, I'm unable to locate these files using find.
How about this?
$ touch --date=tomorrow tomorrow ; touch now ; touch --date=yesterday yesterday
$ find -mmin +0 -or -printf "File generated in future: %p%n"
File generated in future: ./tomorrow
cu andreas
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Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2005-01-20 Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> wrote:
> > Package: findutils
> > Version: 4.1.20-4
> > Severity: wishlist
>
> > I have a system that has a bad clock and files get dates way off in the
> > future. Unfortunately, I'm unable to locate these files using find.
>
> How about this?
> $ touch --date=tomorrow tomorrow ; touch now ; touch --date=yesterday yesterday
> $ find -mmin +0 -or -printf "File generated in future: %p%n"
> File generated in future: ./tomorrow
I didn't think about +0, however, it's not quite obvious though. Actually,
I was hoping for a way to see if a file was way off in the future Like say
in 2007 or so.
It's not a big deal which is why it's wishlist. I have often wanted a way
to specify seconds as well. Like before/after $date.
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Message #20 received at 291419@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
On 2005-01-20 Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> > $ find -mmin +0 -or -printf "File generated in future: %p%n"
> > File generated in future: ./tomorrow
> I didn't think about +0, however, it's not quite obvious though.
> Actually, I was hoping for a way to see if a file was way off in the
> future Like say in 2007 or so.
I wouldn't know how to do that.
> It's not a big deal which is why it's wishlist.
I'll forward it, seems to be a valid request. The most interesting
problem is probably how to specify this on the commandline, as the
obvious candidate -mtime -x is already taken.
> I have often wanted a way to specify seconds as well.
Wishlist request #2. ;-) I assume you want something like in FreeBSD
(check the description of -atime in
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find>).
> Like before/after $date.
Wishlist request#3. -newerXY with Y=t, as in
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find>.
cu andreas
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Summary: [Wishlist] Find files with [amc]time 3 years in the
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Project: findutils
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Submitted on: Don 20.01.2005 um 21:39
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This started as http://bugs.debian.org/291419
Wakko Warner was looking for a way to find files with *time in the future,
but did not want a simple boolean (which could be done with find -ctime +0
-or -print) but a way to e.g find files with mtime 2 years in the future.
Afact this is currently not possible.
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Summary: [Wishlist] Find files with [amc]time 3 years in the
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Project: findutils
Submitted by: ametzler
Submitted on: Thu 01/20/2005 at 21:39
Category: find
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This started as http://bugs.debian.org/291419
Wakko Warner was looking for a way to find files with *time in the future,
but did not want a simple boolean (which could be done with find -ctime +0
-or -print) but a way to e.g find files with mtime 2 years in the future.
Afact this is currently not possible.
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Message #33 received at 291419@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2005-01-20 Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> wrote:
> > I didn't think about +0, however, it's not quite obvious though.
> > Actually, I was hoping for a way to see if a file was way off in the
> > future Like say in 2007 or so.
>
> I wouldn't know how to do that.
Without touching a file to a date and using -cnewer, there's not. Quite
annoying IMO.
> > It's not a big deal which is why it's wishlist.
>
> I'll forward it, seems to be a valid request. The most interesting
> problem is probably how to specify this on the commandline, as the
> obvious candidate -mtime -x is already taken.
-fromdate <x> or -today <x> ?? =)
> > I have often wanted a way to specify seconds as well.
>
> Wishlist request #2. ;-) I assume you want something like in FreeBSD
> (check the description of -atime in
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find>).
YES!
> > Like before/after $date.
>
> Wishlist request#3. -newerXY with Y=t, as in
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find>.
YES!
heheh, trying to get me to switch to bsd? =)
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Posted on: 2005-01-21 07:42 (Europe/Vienna)
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Follow-up Comment:
Resolving item2 in #11668 would resolve this nicely and spare us to try to
invent new (incompatible) command-line args for resolving the current wish,
afaict.
No idea why I did not see that initially.
(BTW, thanks Jay for cleaning up and making this bug public.)
cu andreas
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Summary: [Wishlist] Find files with [amc]time 3 years in the
future
Project: findutils
Submitted by: ametzler
Submitted on: Don 20.01.2005 um 21:39
Category: find
Severity: 5 - Average
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_______________________________________________________
This started as http://bugs.debian.org/291419
Wakko Warner was looking for a way to find files with *time in the future,
but did not want a simple boolean (which could be done with find -ctime +0
-or -print) but a way to e.g find files with mtime 2 years in the future.
Afact this is currently not possible.
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Date: Fre 21.01.2005 um 07:42 By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler>
Resolving item2 in #11668 would resolve this nicely and spare us to try to
invent new (incompatible) command-line args for resolving the current wish,
afaict.
No idea why I did not see that initially.
(BTW, thanks Jay for cleaning up and making this bug public.)
cu andreas
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Follow-up Comment #2, bugs #11667 (project findutils):
IMO, this can be solved by implementing -newerXY from BSD's find.
I'd also like to wishlist the ability to have -[acm]time function more like
BSD's find in that you have a finer grained control over the time (eg in
seconds)
P.S. This is Wakko! =)
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Source: findutils
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:40:44 +0200
Source: findutils
Binary: findutils
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.3.5-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description:
findutils - utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate
Closes: 21084 291419 354384 370057 400936 403823 412459 420190
Changes:
findutils (4.3.5-1) experimental; urgency=low
.
* New upstream version.
- Better error message if the second operand of a binary operator is
missing. (Closes: #403823)
- If locatedb is old show actual age in warning mesage instead of just
saying "more than 8 days old". (Closes: #354384)
- Do not show warnings about argument ordering if -nowarn is specified.
(Closes: #370057)
- Correct docs for %b printf specifier. (Closes: #400936)
- [-version] instead of [--version] in locate --help. (Closes: #412459)
- make clean does not delete regexprops.texi if cross-building.
(Closes: #420190)
- Different error message on 'find ""'. (Closes: #21084)
- Support for *BSDs -newerXY tests allows to find files with a date in the
future without generating a temporary file. "find -newermt 2007-07-07"
(Closes: #291419)
* Undo workaround for savannah #19550, since it is a glibc bug.
Files:
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Source: findutils
Source-Version: 4.4.0-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
findutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
findutils_4.4.0-1.diff.gz
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findutils_4.4.0-1_i386.deb
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findutils_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
locate_4.4.0-1_i386.deb
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A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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Source: findutils
Binary: findutils locate
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.4.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description:
findutils - utilities for finding files--find, xargs
locate - maintain and query an index of a directory tree
Closes: 21084 291419 336078 354384 370057 403823 438689 460733 470308
Changes:
findutils (4.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream stable version.
+ Some fixes for the texinfo manuals. (Closes: #470308)
* First upload to unstable, close bugs fixed by previous uploads to
experimental:
+ POSIX is going to or has already standardized -[i]path. Stop throwing a
warning sugging to use -[i]wholename instead. Closes: #336078
+ Better error message if the second operand of a binary operator is
missing. (Closes: #403823)
+ #22056: -Xtime tests are off by one second (e.g. rm -f x; touch x;
find x -mtime 0 should print x). Closes: #460733
+ If locatedb is old show actual age in warning mesage instead of just
saying "more than 8 days old". (Closes: #354384)
+ Do not show warnings about argument ordering if -nowarn is specified.
(Closes: #370057)
+ find -execdir will not segfault if PATH is not set. Closes: #438689
+ Different error message on 'find ""'. (Closes: #21084)
+ Support for *BSDs -newerXY tests allows to find files with a date in the
future without generating a temporary file. "find -newermt 2007-07-07"
(Closes: #291419)
* Stop trying to install removed README-alpha.
* Point watchfile to ftp.gnu.org instead of alpha.gnu.org.
* Use doc-base section "File Management", since Apps/Tools is gone.
* Only run $(MAKE) distclean if Makefile exists.
* Symlink find(1) to oldfind(1) manpage.
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