I am trying to figure out the syntax to use find to remove files older than 30 minutes. I know that this will work for files 1 day old, but cannot seem to trim the time down to 30 minutes.
find /path/to/file -ctime +1 -exec rm -f {} \; (1 Reply)
Does anyone know of an easy way to convert regular time 08/21/2002 @ 8:21:21 pm to ctime. I need this to complete a script that I am writing.
Your expertise and help would be amost appreciated. Please note - I am not a programmer so c-code etc will not help. A utility that can be run from a... (9 Replies)
:D i have a slight problem and would appreciate if someone could clarify the confusion.. i use find alot and so far i have done ok.. but it just struck me a couple of days ago that I am not quite sure what the difference between the modification time and the change time as in ctime and mtime and... (3 Replies)
i have used all forms of the unix find command.. and right now this is the only command i can think of that might have this option..:
if i use mtime i am looking at a time interval.. but if i wanted to find out intervals of access, change and modification according to when a file changed size... (4 Replies)
Unix keeps 3 timestamps for each file: mtime, ctime, and atime. Most people seem to understand atime (access time), it is when the file was last read. There does seem to be some confusion between mtime and ctime though. ctime is the inode change time while mtime is the file modification time. ... (2 Replies)
Hi
I've made some test with perl script to learn more about mtime...
So, my question is :
Why the mtime from findfind /usr/local/sbin -ctime -1 -mtime -1 \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.gz" \) -print are not the same as mtime from unix/linux in ls -ltr or in stat() function in perl : stat -... (2 Replies)
hi, in trying to maintain your directories, one needs to do some housekeeping like removing old files. the tool "find" comes in handy. but how would you decide which option to use when it comes to, say, deleting files that are older than 5 days?
mtime - last modified
atime - last accessed... (4 Replies)
I know that find -ctime +1 will find ALL files that have been modified
that are greater than 1 day old and -ctime 1 will find files that are
ONLY 1 day old -ctime -1 mean files that are less than a day old?
Can find actually use this granularity? (5 Replies)
startdate="2012_07_04-16:14:4"
path1="/home/drdos/sample"
days=0
find $path1 -name "*$startdate*" > teste.txt
while
do
find $path1 -name "*.zip" ctime $days > teste.txt
days=`expr $days + 1`
done
echo " Files that are near the string u search are on teste.txt"Hi to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: drd0spt
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
time
TIME(3F)TIME(3F)NAME
time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time
SYNOPSIS
integer function time()
character*(*) function ctime (stime)
integer stime
subroutine ltime (stime, tarray)
integer stime, tarray(9)
subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray)
integer stime, tarray(9)DESCRIPTION
Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds. This is the value of the UNIX system clock.
Ctime converts a system time to a 24 character ASCII string. The format is described under ctime(3). No 'newline' or NULL will be
included.
Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT. The order and meaning of each element
returned in tarray is described under ctime(3).
FILES
/usr/lib/libU77.a
SEE ALSO ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F)4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 TIME(3F)