Hi, does anyone know how to find files who have the last access time bigger than 5 min ago, in linux i use: find ./ -amin +5 -type f -maxdepth 1 -name "*.*"
but in hp-ux the find command doesn't have the -amin option.... (2 Replies)
I thought that access time of a file is time when the file was run last time (or I read somewhere that it's time when system lookup the file -> but I'm not sure when it really is)
How is it exactly?
Thank you for help! (11 Replies)
Hi,
I want to change the access permissions of the files whose extension is same.For example *.c but these are inside a directory and inside that other directory is there and it contains the .c files..for example--
So my aim is to search the files under src and change the access permissions... (3 Replies)
i have file named aaaa.
The file aaaa was zipped on one particular time.
Need to know the command to find out when the file "aaaa" was actually zipped. (1 Reply)
Dear All,
I'm working as a DBA and dont have much knowledge at OS level commands.we have requirement that we need find the files which has been last accessed >= apr 2010and also access date <= apr 2010 for a large set of files.Do know some commands likeistat, ls -u.But can anyone provide me the... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone
When I'm starting my script I'm giving to it two parameters:
script.sh ext1 ext2
I need to copy all files in a directory fitting ext1, to the same folder, with the same names, but with the changed extension to ext2.
Till now I've just managed to do it for only 1 file, but I... (16 Replies)
Hi, I am facing a weird file access time issue on redHat5.x. I have a program which will scan the files in the NFS system and delete files which are older than 4 days, before deleting files program will print the access time of the file.
Some of the files are getting deleted which are not older... (1 Reply)
My query please:
What I saw how access times of a file and directories work.
1) For a file the access time is the time when I 1st access it after last modification of the file, i.e., if the file is modified at 10 AM and then I access it at 11 AM. After than whenever I access without... (7 Replies)
Hello... And thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me
I was trying to work out the differences between displaying modify, access, and change times with the 'ls' command. Everything seems in order when I look at files, but the access time on a directory doesn't seem to change when I... (4 Replies)
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tmpwatch
TMPWATCH(8) System Administrator's Manual TMPWATCH(8)NAME
tmpwatch - removes files which haven't been accessed for a period of time
SYNOPSIS
tmpwatch [-u|-m|-c] [-MUXadfqstvx] [--verbose] [--force] [--all]
[--nodirs] [--nosymlinks] [--test] [--fuser] [--quiet]
[--atime|--mtime|--ctime] [--dirmtime] [--exclude path]
[--exclude-user user] [--exclude-pattern pattern]
time dirs
DESCRIPTION
tmpwatch recursively removes files which haven't been accessed for a given time. Normally, it's used to clean up directories which are
used for temporary holding space such as /tmp.
When changing directories, tmpwatch is very sensitive to possible race conditions and will exit with an error if one is detected. It does
not follow symbolic links in the directories it's cleaning (even if a symbolic link is given as its argument), does not switch filesystems
(including non-trivial bind mounts), skips lost+found directories owned by the root user, and only removes empty directories, regular
files, symbolic links, and on some systems also unused sockets.
By default, tmpwatch dates files by their atime (access time), not their mtime (modification time). If files aren't being removed when ls
-l implies they should be, use ls -u to examine their atime to see if that explains the problem.
If the --atime, --ctime or --mtime options are used in combination, the decision about deleting a file will be based on the maximum of
these times. The --dirmtime option implies ignoring atime of directories, even if the --atime option is used.
The time parameter defines the threshold for removing files. If the file has not been accessed for time, the file is removed. The time
argument is a number with an optional single-character suffix specifying the units: m for minutes, h for hours, d for days. If no suffix
is specified, time is in hours.
Following this, one or more directories may be given for tmpwatch to clean up.
OPTIONS -u, --atime
Make the decision about deleting a file based on the file's atime (access time). This is the default.
Note that the periodic updatedb file system scans keep the atime of directories recent.
-m, --mtime
Make the decision about deleting a file based on the file's mtime (modification time) instead of the atime.
-c, --ctime
Make the decision about deleting a file based on the file's ctime (inode change time) instead of the atime; for directories, make
the decision based on the mtime.
-M, --dirmtime
Make the decision about deleting a directory based on the directory's mtime (modification time) instead of the atime; completely
ignore atime for directories.
-a, --all
Remove all file types, not just regular files, symbolic links and directories. On systems where tmpwatch can remove unused sockets,
make the decision only based on file times, ignoring possible use of the socket.
-d, --nodirs
Do not attempt to remove directories, even if they are empty.
-f, --force
Remove root-owned files even if root doesn't have write access (akin to rm -f).
-l, --nosymlinks
Do not attempt to remove symbolic links.
-q, --quiet
Report only fatal errors.
-s, --fuser
Attempt to use the "fuser" command to see if a file is already open before removing it. Not enabled by default. Does help in some
circumstances, but not all. Dependent on fuser being installed in /sbin. Not supported on HP-UX or Solaris.
-t, --test
Don't remove files, but go through the motions of removing them. This implies -v.
-U, --exclude-user=user
Don't remove files owned by user, which can be an user name or numeric user ID.
-v, --verbose
Print a verbose display. Two levels of verboseness are available -- use this option twice to get the most verbose output.
-x, --exclude=path
Skip path; if path is a directory, all files contained in it are skipped too. If path does not exist, it must be an absolute path
that contains no symbolic links.
-X, --exclude-pattern=pattern
Skip paths matching pattern; if a directory matches pattern, all files contained in it are skipped too. pattern must match an abso-
lute path that contains no symbolic links.
SEE ALSO cron(1), ls(1), rm(1), fuser(1)AUTHORS
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 2009-10-15 TMPWATCH(8)