Ok...thanks for all the fast responses. Almost everyone suggested using "find" with the -ctime option. This would be great, except as Tyler Hall pointed out:
>AFAIK, the creation date and the modification dates are the same value. Some programs will read in an entire file, >make the modifications, then write the entire file back out to disk, so in essence, the entire file would be new >according to the OS.
and it turns out this is exactly what the program does. That's why the output of find . -mtime -1 and find . -ctime -1 give excatly the same output. oh well...Thanks to all...
Jonathan Williams
UNIX Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 15:38:36 NZST