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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Time take between first and last file creation Post 302838943 by krishmaths on Wednesday 31st of July 2013 01:16:24 AM
Old 07-31-2013
Do you have control over the process that creates those multiple files? If yes then you can add something like this in the code.

At the start of the script:
Code:
startsec=$(date +%s)


At the end of the script:
Code:
 endsec=$(date +%s)
 duration=$(expr $endsec - $startsec)
 echo $duration

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In case you need to find the difference between first file and last file in a directory, below script can be used.

Code:
DIR=/your/directory

first_ts=$(ls -lt $DIR | tail -1 | awk '{print $8}')
last_ts=$(ls -ltr $DIR | tail -1 | awk '{print $8}')

first_mm=$(echo $first_ts | cut -d":" -f 1)
first_ss=$(echo $first_ts | cut -d":" -f 2)
last_mm=$(echo $last_ts | cut -d":" -f 1)
last_ss=$(echo $last_ts | cut -d":" -f 2)

first_totsec=$(expr $first_mm \* 60 + $first_ss)
last_totsec=$(expr $last_mm \* 60 + $last_ss)

duration=$(expr $last_totsec - $first_totsec)

if [ $duration -gt 60 ]
then
  echo "\n" Diff between first and last file mtime: $(echo $duration | awk '{printf("%2d min %2d sec",$1/60,$1%60)}') "\n"
else
  echo "\n Diff between first and last file mtime: $duration seconds.\n"
fi

 

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