Script or program to show recently modified files

[tashirosgt]

Anyone know a good script or simple program to list all the files on the machine that have been modifed, say, in the last 10 minutes.

I'm gettng ready to configure a computer that will have both a solid state drive and a conventional hard drive in it. I want to arrange the filesystem so that files that are frequently modified reside on the conventional drive. Hence, I'd like to investigate what these files are on my current machine.

Edit:

find /directory_path -mtime -1 -print

Works to get files modified in the last 24 hours, which will be good enough, I suppose.

[marriedto51]

Another trick I sometimes use (though more to find out which files a given application accesses) is something like

$ touch /tmp/now
wait, or execute application
$ find /path/to/dir -newer /tmp/now -print

[marko]

It would be way more efficient to register with the inotify API than to do a find. But the impact of inotify gets bigger as you encompass more of the filesystem since you have to make more and more watchers for each child directory. See "man inotify". But the big advantage of inotify is you see the file change event the instant it happens which makes it a very natural way to see file change events backwards by some amount of time (say 6 hours)


You could use python with pyinotify to do this

https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify