How can I find files added to the system within X minutes of a specific time?
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Published on 2012-12-02T22:22:18Z
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I have done a fresh install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion today on a new MacBook.
Because this was a new install, when I finally got round to configuring some of my own developer things, I was surprised to find some app had installed a binary into /usr/local/bin
- a single binary called galileod
.
Interestingly, I can't find anything online about galileod
. I had only installed the bare minimum of software at this point.
Looking in the file columns I can see Date Modified was 9th November 2012, but Date Added to the system was today at 17:01.
It's now 10:20PM and I can't remember which software I was installing at that point. So how do I find out which other files were installed to the system within, say, 5 minutes either side of 17:01?
EDIT: I found out what galileod
was by running galileod --help
- it is a binary used with Fitbit to communicate with the USB dongle. So that's the mystery solved - but it would still be interesting to know how to find files added within X minutes of a timeframe for future reference.
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