how does mtime work

From: RichGlazier@netscape.net
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 23:51:54 EST


Hello.

I am trying to find all files modified in the last x number of days in a particular directory. From that directory I am executing "find . -mtime 2 -ls" to see files modified in the last 2 days. This produces 8 files. I then decide to see files modified in thae last 3 days, I would expect that to have the same 8 files that were modified in the last 2 days, plus the ones modified in the last 3 days. It doesn't. Each time I keep increasing the number of days back to grab from, it keeps giving me a completely different set of files, and the time stamps dont seem to have any pattern.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

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