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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting IF loop to check the time modified Post 302781257 by mirni on Friday 15th of March 2013 08:29:58 PM
Old 03-15-2013
You can use -mtime of find(1). -mtime -1 would list files newer than 24 hours. Alternatively, you can make a timestamp every midnight (from cron), and check with -nt, if your shell's test implementation has it. See man test for details. E.g.:
Code:
find /path/to/dir -mtime -1 > newFiles.lst
...
if grep -q $file newFiles.lst ; then 
  echo "file $file is new"
else
  echo "old stuff"
fi

or
Code:
if [ $file -nt $timestamp ] ; then
  echo "$file is new"
fi

 

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stat - Gives information about a file

SYNOPSIS
array stat (string $filename) DESCRIPTION
Gathers the statistics of the file named by $filename. If $filename is a symbolic link, statistics are from the file itself, not the sym- link. lstat(3) is identical to stat(3) except it would instead be based off the symlinks status. PARAMETERS
o $filename - Path to the file. RETURN VALUES
stat(3) and fstat(3) result format +--------+--------------------------------------+---+ |Numeric | | | | | | | | | Associative | | | | | | | | Description | | | | | | +--------+--------------------------------------+---+ | 0 | | | | | | | | | dev | | | | | | | | device number | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | | ino | | | | | | | | inode number * | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | mode | | | | | | | | inode protection mode | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | nlink | | | | | | | | number of links | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | uid | | | | | | | | userid of owner * | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | gid | | | | | | | | groupid of owner * | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | rdev | | | | | | | | device type, if inode device | | | | | | | 7 | | | | | | | | | size | | | | | | | | size in bytes | | | | | | | 8 | | | | | | | | | atime | | | | | | | | time of last access (Unix timestamp) | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | | | | mtime | | | | | | | | time of last modification (Unix | | | | timestamp) | | | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | | | ctime | | | | | | | | time of last inode change (Unix | | | | timestamp) | | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | | | | blksize | | | | | | | | blocksize of filesystem IO ** | | | | | | | 12 | | | | | | | | | blocks | | | | | | | | number of 512-byte blocks allocated | | | | ** | | | | | | +--------+--------------------------------------+---+ * On Windows this will always be 0. ** Only valid on systems supporting the st_blksize type - other systems (e.g. Windows) return -1. In case of error, stat(3) returns FALSE. Note Because PHP's integer type is signed and many platforms use 32bit integers, some filesystem functions may return unexpected results for files which are larger than 2GB. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS Upon failure, an E_WARNING is emitted. EXAMPLES
Example #1 stat(3) example <?php /* Get file stat */ $stat = stat('C:phpphp.exe'); /* * Print file access time, this is the same * as calling fileatime() */ echo 'Access time: ' . $stat['atime']; /* * Print file modification time, this is the * same as calling filemtime() */ echo 'Modification time: ' . $stat['mtime']; /* Print the device number */ echo 'Device number: ' . $stat['dev']; ?> Example #2 Using stat(3) information together with touch(3) <?php /* Get file stat */ $stat = stat('C:phpphp.exe'); /* Did we failed to get stat information? */ if (!$stat) { echo 'stat() call failed...'; } else { /* * We want the access time to be 1 week * after the current access time. */ $atime = $stat['atime'] + 604800; /* Touch the file */ if (!touch('some_file.txt', time(), $atime)) { echo 'Failed to touch file...'; } else { echo 'touch() returned success...'; } } ?> NOTES
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lstat(3), fstat(3), filemtime(3), filegroup(3). PHP Documentation Group STAT(3)
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