You can use the -d option on the touch command (not POSIX) to create a file that has a time stamp that is n seconds in the past. Then run find with the -newer option to find all files newer than the dummy file.
If you're on a system that only has a POSIX date command (no -d support), then you'll need to compute the time for the touch command as a string and use the -t option on touch. Messier, but not difficult. Check out the man page for touch if you need to do it this way.
Hi All,
I'm working on a ftp shell script in which I'm tranfering files from one sever to another using ftp.
Some program generates files at undefined time & throughout the day.
I have to transfer the files time to time.. i.e. once the file is generated, it should be transfered at the very... (3 Replies)
I'm running a UNIX application on HP-UX which generated logs files every few seconds. Now at times these log files are replicated as .nfs files and sometimes cannot be deleted.
Now it reaches a point that i'm not even able to list any files on the logs directory. Normally i restart that server... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I was checking some of the files and I got the following entries:-
===============
v, 664, serv, serv, version.txt, exe
L, 775, serv, serv, start.sh, eventserv
================
Could someone please tell me what does the type"v" and "L" represent to.
I have not... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends!
i am wirking on the IBM AIX version 5.3. and i wrote a script to delete the files whicha re generated on 10 days before to the present day. but iam not able to delete the files with the below script so please check and correct me.
dt=`TZ=aaa480 date +%d`... (2 Replies)
Hi,
We have an application ASPA . The application related processes are running in /ASPA/bin directory . now whenever a process terminates abruptly , a core file should be generated (correct me if i am wrong) in the
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Hi,
I have a directory named (/output). this directory has files in the below format
abc.* ,
xyz*,
djj*,
iwe*,
weewe*,
rier*,
3948903ddfgf*
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Hi
I have the following files generated by different users on a directory
-rw-rw-r-- 1 NAME1 database03 809 Nov 17 10:41 PCAS_CARD_TRANS_OFF.1111171041.lg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 richard ccsdba 10968411 Nov 17 10:43 load_123_RX0_0.1111171016.lg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 DEV db03 10713 Nov 17... (5 Replies)
I would like to find the Files which are generated today in the current directory:
I use the commad ls -lrt * | egrep " `date "+%b"` * `date "+%d"`
to acheive this. Is there any better way to acquire the same.
Multiple answers will be great. Thanks (3 Replies)
Hello Masters,
I need one help.
I want to copy the files which are continuously generating on one server.
But this would be on hourly basis.
e.g.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 akore akore 0 Feb 12 03:20 test1.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 akore akore 0 Feb 12 03:42 test2.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 akore akore 0 Feb 12 04:22... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
touch
TOUCH(3) 1 TOUCH(3)touch - Sets access and modification time of fileSYNOPSIS
bool touch (string $filename, [int $time = time()], [int $atime])
DESCRIPTION
Attempts to set the access and modification times of the file named in the $filename parameter to the value given in $time. Note that the
access time is always modified, regardless of the number of parameters.
If the file does not exist, it will be created.
PARAMETERS
o $filename
- The name of the file being touched.
o $time
- The touch time. If $time is not supplied, the current system time is used.
o $atime
- If present, the access time of the given filename is set to the value of $atime. Otherwise, it is set to the value passed to the
$time parameter. If neither are present, the current system time is used.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.0 | |
| | |
| | It became possible to change the modification |
| | time of a directory under Windows. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
touch(3) example
<?php
if (touch($filename)) {
echo $filename . ' modification time has been changed to present time';
} else {
echo 'Sorry, could not change modification time of ' . $filename;
}
?>
Example #2
touch(3) using the $time parameter
<?php
// This is the touch time, we'll set it to one hour in the past.
$time = time() - 3600;
// Touch the file
if (!touch('some_file.txt', $time)) {
echo 'Whoops, something went wrong...';
} else {
echo 'Touched file with success';
}
?>
NOTES
Note
Note that time resolution may differ from one file system to another.
Warning
Prior to PHP 5.3.0 it was not possible to change the modification time of a directory with this function under Windows.
PHP Documentation Group TOUCH(3)