Hi

I have to write a script, that will find out the lists of files in a particular directory, which are created between 30-60 min intervals.

use touch to create two files - one 30 minutes old and the other 60 minutes old.
Then use find with the -newer option

touch -t 200807152100 min30
touch -t 200807152130 min60
find /path/to/files -type f \( -newer min60 -a ! -newer min30 \)

The files are created by script, i cannot manually create the file.this script will be running after every 1 hr, so i cannot hardcode the time inthe script.

Here I have a perl script that does what you exactly want. As agrument pass the path you want to search for files:

use strict;
use File::Find;

my $path_to_start = $ARGV[0];
my @files_bet_30_60 = ();
my $thirty_mins_in_secs = 30*60;
my $sixty_mins_in_secs = 60*60;

finddepth(\&wanted, $path_to_start);
foreach my $file (@files_bet_30_60) {
print "$file\n";
}

sub wanted {
my $file = $File::Find::name;
next unless (-f $file);

my $mtime = (stat($file))[9];
my $time_diff = time - $mtime;
push @files_bet_30_60, $file if
(($time_diff > $thirty_mins_in_secs) && ($time_diff < $sixty_mins_in_secs));
}

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