There are times when we want to find recently modified files in a directory. We can use command line tool find on Linux or Mac for this. Here are some quick commands to do it:
Find files modified within last few minutes
Find files modified within last 30 min
$ find . -mmin -30 -type f
Find recent files modified within last 30 min and sort them also
$ find . -mmin -30 -type f -exec stat -f'%m %N' {} \; | sort -rn | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 ls -l
Find recent files modified within last 30 min with depth less than 3
$ find . -mmin -30 -type f -depth -3
Find recent files within last 10 days
$ find . -mtime -10 -type f
