How to find files older than certain year or minute in Linux
Published: July 16, 2009 , Updated: July 16, 2009 , Author: mkyong
In some cases, we want to find files that older than certain year , let say 1 year, we can use the -mtime +1 argument. In other hand, if we want to find files that older than certain minute, let say 1 minute, we can use -mmin +1 argument.
man find
find the following statement
-mmin n
File’s data was last modified n minutes ago.
-mtime n
File’s data was last modified n*24 hours ago. See the comments for
-atime to understand how rounding affects the interpretation of file mod?
ification times.Find files that older than 1 year
find . -mtime +1
Find files that older than 1 minute
find . -mmin +1






i think you are mistaken, the:
find . -mtime +1
is for finding files which are older than 1 day.