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

find / -type f -atime -30 > december.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 december.files. This command is run in the background due to &.

Relevance Read:

• Search Many Files and Print
• Finding Out The Last Modified Time For Files
• Unix Commands for Finding Files
• Show Difference Between Two Files
• Displaying Tabs In A File

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