Linux - Find all files changed in the last 7 days recursively

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It is a common task for system administrators to identify all changes in the file system in the last few days.

Here is a useful command to find all changed files in the last 7 days:

find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' "{}" \; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2-

Updated: Sep 09, 2020