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  • Not with a POSIX find, but all modern find implementations support find dir -mtime -2h Commented Feb 11, 2020 at 13:44
  • To what time in files are you referring? The last modification time? The creation time? Commented Feb 11, 2020 at 13:56
  • both GNU and BSD date(1) can do that most probably. Of course find will be more efficient. Commented Feb 12, 2020 at 8:12