Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Checking directory status
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking directory status Post 302569984 by Pramit on Wednesday 2nd of November 2011 07:27:13 AM
Old 11-02-2011
Checking directory status

Can I use -ctime/-mtime to verify if a particular directory has been updated or not?
I don't care about number of days. I just want to perform some operations only if the folder is modified (or it's metadata is modified), i.e. some files are added to the directory.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment This thread has a more informativ character than to answer questions. Open up a normal thread in the appropriate sub forum, thanks - separating this post to a new thread.

Last edited by zaxxon; 11-02-2011 at 09:21 AM.. Reason: user posted in q&a area
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Sending mail, status checking

After I send a mail thr unix with following command uuencode tmpFile | mailx -s "sub1" emailid Yet, I havent received this mail at intended mail client. In order to find out if the sent mail action resulted in failure, I checked at /usr/spool/mail/userid But there also I couldnt find... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: videsh77
1 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Checking Exit Status

I hope one of you smart people out there can help me with what seems like a real simple questing but I can't quite figure out. In a script I am doing a cmp on two files. I am trying to check the exit status with an if statement but can't seem to figure out the syntax. If the exit status is 1 I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: PrimeRibAndADew
4 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

checking the status of file ftp

Hi, I m new to unix and I need a help in FTp-ing a file. My script is given below ftp -n <<END_SCRIPT open $FTP_HOST user $FTP_USER $FTP_PASSWD lcd $TEMPFOLDER cd $FTP_LOCATION put $1 bye END_SCRIPT exit_status=$? if ; then log "successfully FTPed the file" else... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: MeeraNair
5 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

checking for return status between multiple commands

i have to run set of commands command1 command2 command3 command4 Now Whenever any of these command fails i should quit while capturing error message. Is there a better way then checking for $? after each command. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vickylife
1 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Checking Status of PID

I'm developing a script that spawns many background processes that will be executing concurrently and need to check the exit status of each spawned process after it terminates. After starting the background process I can get the pid from $! which I can store in an associative array but how do I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: twk
2 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Checking the status of mail sent.

Hi, Is there any way to check the status of the mail sent or not.e.g mail -s "Error Message" abc@xyz.com <aaa/bbb/data.txt Can it return a status code which will confirm the delivery of mail sent?Please suggest. Thanks, Anil (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: anil029
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

checking the status of sendmail

Hi All, I like to check the status of sendmail and take the appropriate action based on success / failure etc. I have gone through one of the thread where a suggestion is made to use RC for return code Following is the code: ================================== #!/usr/bin/bash export... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: tmanda
0 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Checking status of engines using C-shell

I am relatively new to scripting. I am trying to develop a script that will 1. Source an executable file as an argument to the script that sets up the environment 2. Run a command "stat" that gives the status of 5 Engines running on the system 3. Check the status of the 5 Engines as either... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: paslas
0 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script for SFTP Status Checking

Greetings... I have to construct shell script to check the SFTP status, Define a global variable (say sftpStatus). Set it to default value "success" when you define it first time outside the script. check the current SFTP status (say currentStatus - local variable within the script) if... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: manju98458
16 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

FIFO Status Checking/Running

May i please know 1) How to check if FIFO process is down? 2) How to bring FIFO up and running? we are using redhat Linux OS and bash shell Thank you. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Ariean
1 Replies
install::TempContent::Objects::mod_perl-2.0.9::docs::apiUserRContributed Peinstall::TempContent::Objects::mod_perl-2.0.9::docs::api::APR::Finfo(3)

NAME
APR::Finfo - Perl API for APR fileinfo structure Synopsis use APR::Finfo (); use APR::Const -compile => qw(FINFO_NORM); my $finfo = APR::Finfo::stat("/tmp/test", APR::Const::FINFO_NORM, $pool); $device = $finfo->device; # (stat $file)[0] $inode = $finfo->inode; # (stat $file)[1] # stat returns an octal number while protection is hex $prot = $finfo->protection; # (stat $file)[2] $nlink = $finfo->nlink; # (stat $file)[3] $gid = $finfo->group; # (stat $file)[4] $uid = $finfo->user; # (stat $file)[5] $size = $finfo->size; # (stat $file)[7] $atime = $finfo->atime; # (stat $file)[8] $mtime = $finfo->mtime; # (stat $file)[9] $ctime = $finfo->ctime; # (stat $file)[10] $csize = $finfo->csize; # consumed size: not portable! $filetype = $finfo->filetype; # file/dir/socket/etc $fname = $finfo->fname; $name = $finfo->name; # in filesystem case: # valid fields that can be queried $valid = $finfo->valid; Description APR fileinfo structure provides somewhat similar information to Perl's "stat()" call, but you will want to use this module's API to query an already "stat()'ed" filehandle to avoid an extra system call or to query attributes specific to APR file handles. During the HTTP request handlers coming after "PerlMapToStorageHandler", "$r->finfo" already contains the cached values from the apr's "stat()" call. So you don't want to perform it again, but instead get the "ARP::Finfo" object via: my $finfo = $r->finfo; API
"APR::Finfo" provides the following functions and/or methods: "atime" Get the time the file was last accessed: $atime = $finfo->atime; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $atime ( integer ) Last access time in seconds since the epoch since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[8] Note that this method may not be reliable on all platforms, most notably Win32 -- FAT32 filesystems appear to work properly, but NTFS filesystems do not. "csize" Get the storage size consumed by the file $csize = $finfo->csize; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $csize ( integer ) since: 2.0.00 Chances are that you don't want to use this method, since its functionality is not supported on most platforms (in which case it always returns 0). "ctime" Get the time the file was last changed $ctime = $finfo->ctime; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $ctime ( integer ) Inode change time in seconds since the epoch since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[10] The ctime field is non-portable. In particular, you cannot expect it to be a "creation time", see "Files and Filesystems" in the perlport manpage for details. "device" Get the id of the device the file is on. $device = $finfo->device; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $device ( integer ) since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[0] Note that this method is non-portable. It doesn't work on all platforms, most notably Win32. "filetype" Get the type of file. $filetype = $finfo->filetype; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $filetype ( ":filetype constant" ) since: 2.0.00 For example: use APR::Pool; use APR::Finfo; use APR::Const -compile => qw(FILETYPE_DIR FILETYPE_REG FINFO_NORM); my $pool = APR::Pool->new(); my $finfo = APR::Finfo::stat("/tmp", APR::Const::FINFO_NORM, $pool); my $finfo = $finfo->filetype; if ($finfo == APR::Const::FILETYPE_REG) { print "regular file"; } elsif ($finfo == APR::Const::FILETYPE_REG) { print "directory"; } else { print "other file"; } Since /tmp is a directory, this will print: directory "fname" Get the pathname of the file (possibly unrooted) $fname = $finfo->fname; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $filetype ( string ) since: 2.0.00 "group" Get the group id that owns the file: $gid = $finfo->group; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $gid ( number ) since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[5] Note that this method may not be meaningful on all platforms, most notably Win32. Incorrect results have also been reported on some versions of OSX. "inode" Get the inode of the file. $inode = $finfo->inode; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $inode ( integer ) since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[1] Note that this method may not be meaningful on all platforms, most notably Win32. "mtime" The time the file was last modified $mtime = $finfo->mtime; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $mtime ( integer ) Last modify time in seconds since the epoch since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[9] "name" Get the file's name (no path) in filesystem case: $name = $finfo->name; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $device ( string ) since: 2.0.00 "nlink" Get the number of hard links to the file. $nlink = $finfo->nlink; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $nlink ( integer ) since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[3] "protection" Get the access permissions of the file. Mimics Unix access rights. $prot = $finfo->protection; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $prot ( ":fprot constant" ) since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[2] Note: Perl's stat returns an octal number while mod_perl's "protection" returns a hex number. See perldoc -f stat and APR's file_io for more information on each. "size" Get the size of the file $size = $finfo->size; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $size ( integer ) Total size of file, in bytes since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[7] "stat" Get the specified file's stats. $finfo = APR::Finfo::stat($fname, $wanted_fields, $p); arg1: $fname ( string ) The path to the file to "stat()". arg2: $wanted_fields ( ":finfo constant" ) The desired fields, as a bitmask flag of "APR::FINFO_*" constants. Notice that you can also use the constants that already combine several elements in one. For example "APR::Const::FINFO_PROT" asks for all protection bits, "APR::Const::FINFO_MIN" asks for the following fields: type, mtime, ctime, atime, size and "APR::Const::FINFO_NORM" asks for all atomic unix "apr_stat()" fields (similar to perl's "stat()"). arg3: $p ( "APR::Pool object" ) the pool to use to allocate the file stat structure. ret: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) since: 2.0.00 For example, here is how to get most of the "stat" fields: use APR::Pool (); use APR::Finfo (); use APR::Const -compile => qw(FINFO_NORM); my $pool = APR::Pool->new(); my $finfo = APR::Finfo::stat("/tmp/test", APR::Const::FINFO_NORM, $pool); "user" Get the user id that owns the file: $uid = $finfo->user; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) return: $uid ( number ) since: 2.0.00 This method returns the same value as Perl's: (stat $filename)[4] Note that this method may not be meaningful on all platforms, most notably Win32. "valid" The bitmask describing valid fields of this apr_finfo_t structure including all available 'wanted' fields and potentially more $valid = $finfo->valid; obj: $finfo ( "APR::Finfo object" ) arg1: $valid ( bitmask ) This bitmask flag should be bit-OR'ed against ":finfo constant" constants. since: 2.0.00 See Also mod_perl 2.0 documentation. Copyright mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0. Authors The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors. perl v5.18.2 2015-06install::TempContent::Objects::mod_perl-2.0.9::docs::api::APR::Finfo(3)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:12 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy