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That is, you won’t find all files that are “at least” 24 hours old, you’ll find only those files that are exactly (with rounding) 24 hours old. In case I wasn’t completely clear with this example, ctime works via matching, not as a limit. Obviously, you could easily change the command to show files that have been changed 24 hours ago ( ctime -1 ) or 48 hours ago ( ctime -2 )-or any other full-day increment you’d like to use.

| more: This just sends the output to the Unix paging system, so you can read it one screen at a time.

-ctime -0: Limits the modification time to the latest 24-hour period (rounded).

-type f: Finds only files, not directories, symbolic links, or other special Unix file types.

To start find in the current directory, you would use find.

find ~/Documents: Runs the Unix find command, starting in the Documents folder, and then reading all other directories at or below that level.

The output should be a list of all files that have changed in your Documents folder within the last 24 hours. The animation starts out showing a Finder window with no selected files and ends with the files from the search being selected in the Finder window.Find ~/Documents -type f -ctime -0 | more This following animation demonstrates running the above AppleScript code directly from the Script Editor.app. Tell application "Finder" to reveal revealTheseFiles Set end of revealTheseFiles to (thisFile as alias) If |AM or PM| is in time string of fileCreationDate then If timeCreated is in time string of fileCreationDate then

Set fileCreationDate to (get creation date of thisFile) Set theFolder to choose folder with prompt "Search in Folder" "January 5" buttons ¬ĭefault button 2 cancel button 1 with title "File Search Criteria - Step 2") "Insert Month or Month & Day of file creation" default answer ¬ Set monthCreated to text returned of (display dialog ¬ NOTE: This version includes a "Month or Month & Day of file creation" to the search criteria. It can also be saved in Script Editor as an "application" then can launched through Finder by double clicking it, like any other app. The code can be run directly within Script Editor. Paste this following AppleScript code into a new Script Editor.app document. It will then automatically select the files from your search results, in a new finder window. Here is an AppleScript solution which will allow you to choose a folder to search in and set the search criteria for the files you want.