@pandeesh
In modern unix the nearest to file creation date is the "last modification date of the inode".
However this date is unreliable because it can be changed by certain backup software and anything which changes the inode like "chmod" ... and of course the "touch" command itself !
Can I determine when the particular file was created, in korn-shell. Can please someone help me. If possible please mail the solution to me.
my mail id: bharat.surana@gmail.com (1 Reply)
Hi There,
I was wondering how to manage files (ie. rm, cp , mv) based on date last modified and date created.
ie. Say i want to:
mv ./* ./temp/* (where the date created < 29/1/2006 )
or
mv ./* ./temp/* (where the date modified > 27/1/2006 && date modified < 29/1/2006)
Thanks in... (1 Reply)
Assume, I created one file three years back and I like to move the file to some other directory with the old date (Creation date)? Is it possible? Explain? (1 Reply)
I am trying to rename files based on the created/born date of the file. I Have a total of 4000 files that i am trying to do this with and would like it to be log_yyyymmddhh.gz right now the files are maillog.???.gz.
Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to get this done via scipt?
... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
We are copying all the files into ARCHIVE directory after we process them. We are doing this process from last 2 years, now we have a lot of files in ARCHIVE directory.
Now I need to find when the first file is copied into this directory?
If I Issue,
ls -l /ARCHIVE/*.* | tail -1... (3 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I need to get year part of file created date. when using
ls -l , it only show month, day and time.
is there any option I can add to get year portition?
Thanks in advance (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to find a file which is created on current day.... I searched in unix.com and i found, below command.
find /land/ -mtime -1 -type f -print | grep "FF_Member_STG.dat"
The command checks if the file with name "FF_Member_STG.dat" is created today then exit else proceed.
... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new in scripting and working in a project where we have RSyslog servers over CentOS v7 and more than 200 network devices are sending logs to each RSyslog servers. For each network devices individual folders create on the name of the each network devices IP addresses.The main... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pinaki
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
touch
TOUCH(1) User Commands TOUCH(1)NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty.
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD
change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela-
tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu-
mented here but is fully described in the info documentation.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
Report touch bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'touch invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 TOUCH(1)