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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find how many files are in use in a folder Post 302279451 by JerryHone on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 05:37:05 PM
Old 01-22-2009
Not sure why you'd want to do this, but you could attempt to use 'find' with one of the access time options, but I don't believe that this will be anywhere near foolproof.
Code:
find . -atime -1 -ls

should list all files in the directory tree accessed within the last day. GNU find has an -amin option that deals in minutes rather than days.

In Perl, you can descend the tree and 'stat' each file to get its access time.

Jerry
 

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rmf(1)							      General Commands Manual							    rmf(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove folder (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-help] [-[no]interactive]

OPTIONS

       Prints  a  list of the valid options to this command.  Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder. By default, rmf deletes a folder and
       its messages without asking for confirmation.  If you specify the -interactive option, rmf asks if you are sure before deleting the folder.
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DESCRIPTION

       The  rmf  command  removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself. If there are any files within
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       the current folder,rmf asks you whether you want to delete +inbox instead.

       If the current folder is removed, it makes +inbox current.

       Note that the rmf command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution.

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