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Operating Systems HP-UX Removing files from a particular month Post 302633939 by methyl on Wednesday 2nd of May 2012 04:36:04 PM

05-02-2012

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Not checked the numbers (noted that the above post has been revised) but if we adopt that approach, the syntax should be:

Code:

find . -type f \( -mtime -98 -a -mtime +69 \) -exec ls -lad '{}' \;

However the results from that command depend on exactly what time-of-day and on what date the command is run.

The quick and dirty approach is to use the month name from ls -la but this is frought with problems if there are old files (relevant or not) in any directory. With Linux the stat command is useful for this sort of script.

My approach which is pretty much 100% accurate on most unix Operating Systems.

Code:

touch -t 201202010000 /tmp/start_date  # File dated First day of February
touch -t 201203010000 /tmp/end_date    # File dated First day of March
find . -type f \( -newer /tmp/start_date -a ! -newer /tmp/end_date \) -exec ls -lad {} \;

Scripts to automate this sort of process can get a bit long when you need to calculate the restrospective dates but they are essentially easy to write.

Last edited by methyl; 05-02-2012 at 05:46 PM.. Reason: The -v switch to ls not always available. Remove quotes from {} ... though I still need real examples of this syntax.

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i-ls(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   i-ls(1)

NAME

       i-ls - display file stat and checksum information for files

SYNOPSIS

       i-ls [-s] filename

       i-ls [-s] dirname

       Specify a filename for i-ls to examine, or specify a directory with dirname to examine all the files in the directory.

       -s

	      Do not show/calculate checksums for all regular files.

DESCRIPTION

       The integrit system detects intrusion by detecting when trusted files have been altered.

       integrit records information about files in a database.	i-ls allows the user to see that information for live files.

       The output syntax is the same as that of integrit.

EXAMPLES

	    i-ls /tmp/foo.txt

       shows file stat attributes for the file, "/tmp/foo.txt".

	    i-ls /tmp

       shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp".

	    i-ls -s /tmp

       shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp", also including also checksums for all regular files.

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SEE ALSO

       Integrit File Verification System Manual (info), lstat(2)

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