Sometime Today, NMK cobbled together some glyphs to say:

Simply using 1 and omitting the d works.

[root@server root]# ls -ld `find /root -mtime 1`

no need of doing it this way. use: find /root -mtime 1 -exec ls -ld {} ;

But why is it showing files that are modified on 5th Jan, ie day-before-yesterday?

It's supposed to show files with mtime rounded to the next highest 24 hour period from the time specified. FWIW, it shows me the right thing (Jan 6th current time to Jan 7th current time).

Philip