Search Linux files modified in the last hour

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I recently had the necessity to use this useful command to search Linux files changed or created in the last hour (it works on Mac OS too!!)

find . -mmin -60

where

. is the search path and in this case is the folder in which you are (you can get this info by using pwd command)

together with -mmin you can combine or replace with other options like the ones below

Option	Meaning	Unit	Example
-amin	when the file was last accessed	minutes	find . -amin -20 (file accessed in the last 20 mins)
-atime	when the file was accessed	days	find . -atime -2 (files accessed in the last 2 days)
-cmin	when the file was created	minutes	find . -cmin -3 (files created in the last 3 minutes)
-ctime	when the file was created	days	find . -ctime -3 (files created in the last 3 days)
-mmin	when the file was modified	minutes	find . -mmin -3 (files modified in the last 3 minutes)
-mtime	when the file was modified	portion of a day	possible values are: – -1: last 24 hours – -0.5: last 12 hours – -0.25: last 6 hours