On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Brock Noland wrote: > Jim, thanks for SO many answers! The +0 setting is ingenious! What does "-mtime +0" do? I'm not clear on the meaning of the "+". The man page doesn't help much. The info page is a little better but it isn't very clear either. Thanks. Mike >> I am not sure if I understand what you want, but if you want to >> use parenthesis in your expression, if you are testing this from >> a shell depending on which shell you are using, you may need to >> escape them. So the your second expression would be: >> find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} \( -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 \) ! -name 'LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; >> >> If I understand what you want correctly, then I think that you >> could get the same results with: >> find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} -mtime +0 ! -name 'LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \;