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calculating the time difference, when the script was executed and the currenent file
Hi,
I has created the shell script in HP_UX 11.23 and using the command, echo $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) > $DIR/alert, placing the time of running the script into a file alert. I want to compare the time in the above file alert with the current time.If difference is more than 5 min, then print the message. |
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calculating the time difference, when the script was executed and the current time
Hi,
I has created the shell script in HP_UX 11.23 and using the command, echo $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) > $DIR/alert, placing the time of running the script into a file alert. I want to compare the time in the above file alert with the current time.If difference is more than 5 min, then print the message. |
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Take a look at the stat command
stat -c %X ==>time of last access
stat -c %Y ==>time of last modification stat -c %Z ==>time of last change Thus, if you set a variable to capture the returned number, you can compare it to a number for now (i.e. touch a file and get similar value). Code:
ch_file1=$(stat -c %Y file1) touch file2 ch_file2=$(stat -c %Y file2) Code:
> file_diff=$((ch_file2-ch_file1)) > echo $file_diff 533 Last edited by joeyg; 07-14-2008 at 11:20 AM.. Reason: added code to do math difference |
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I made the script, but its giving the error
stat: not found. |
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Hmm "stat" is not a HP UX command. It's on some Linux distributions but not a portable unix command.
Personally I'd use cron to run the script every 5 mins during the monitoring period. Start the cron 5 minutes earlier than the start of your monitoring period. Define a timestamp filename containing todays date: YYYYMMDD="`date +%Y%m%d`" my_timestamp="my_prefix${YYYMMDD}" At the start of the script if the timestamp file does not exist, create it with unix "touch" and exit. On the second and subsequent invocations the file will exist. You can then easily check whether the alert file timestamp is more than 5 minutes old with "find ... -type f ! -newer $my_timestamp ... ". At the end of the script "touch" the timestamp file ready for next time. You will need some code to delete old timestamp files, so choose a unique prefix for the timestamp filename. Beware: Recursive alert log checkers can easily generate multiple alarms for one incident unless you code to deal with this. |
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I cannot use the cron,as i am running the script through automation tool.
Also /tmp/nitin -type f -newer timestamp.sh is running fine but /tmp/nitin -type f! -newer timestamp.sh is giving error bad -type f!. Is there any other way, to know that the particular file is older than 5 min. |
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