Find pages not updated recently

You want pages that have not been updated recently — for archive review, ownership checks, or a quiet cleanup — filtered by last update, not created date.

Use find -mtime with GNU-style day filters (+N / -N / N). Age is measured in 24-hour units on last update (content version when). Spaces never match -mtime (they have no mtime). Results come from the CQL search index and may lag richer ls -l by seconds to minutes right after edits.

Demo

Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/RqYSeaZZLbc

List stale pages

$ cd YourSpace
$ find . -mtime +30
$ find ./Projects -mtime +365
$ find . -name '*Notes*' -mtime +180

+30 means older than 31×24 hours; -7 means younger than 7 days; 0 means last 24 hours. Integer N only.

Optional: prune, then dry-run move (same space, max 100)

To keep top-most matches so a later move does not flatten parent and child, put -prune before piping into mv -n:

$ mkdir ./Archive
$ find ./Projects -mtime +365 -prune | mv -n ./Archive
$ find ./Projects -mtime +365 -prune | head 100 | mv -n ./Archive

Preview with -n / --dry-run first. At most 100 sources per mv (same cap as other piped moves). Same space only — not a cross-space bulk migrator.

Notes

• Last update, not created date.
• Spaces never match -mtime.
• CQL index may lag ls -l after edits; re-run if a just-edited page still appears stale.
• Press Esc or Ctrl+C to stop a long find.

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