If you mean stuff gets appended to the file or not, then you should try below code. It works by reading the file size, sleeping 30 min, reading the file size again and comparing the two values.
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not modified
It's also quite possible that the content of a file is changed, but the file size remains the same.
Obviously, in this case you cannot rely on the file size and should compare the modification times.
The code below can be easily adapted to do so.
Hint: You use the %Y format sequence in the stat command instead of %s (Check man stat or stat --help for details)
Hi,
I've got a question. How do I show the last updated time?
Whenever I do any of the following:
ls -l
ls -lu
ls -lt
I get the creation time.
I need the modification/last update time. I'm FTP'ing a file to a different server. I'd like to know when the FTP is completed. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to accomplish the following and would like some suggestions or possible bash script examples that may work
I have a directory that has a list of log files that's periodically dumped from a script that is crontab that are rotated 4 generations. There will be a time stamp that is... (4 Replies)
hi all, i'm a student and managing lab at my insti. there in one application in which log file has to be maintaine the number of bytes transferred and received. but after certain entries these two attributes stop getting updated and holds same values for rest of the session. This happens one time... (4 Replies)
Hello Friends
I am facing a weird problem :confused:, we receive thousands of files in my system on a daily basis, access time stamp on some of the files are being updated as old time stamp like 1968-01-19, Could some one help me what could be causing this? so that i can narrow down the problem... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a process which after some time continues move a files to some folder(say the name of the folder is logdir)
What i am trying to do is as the files are coming to the logdir folder, I want the latest updated time and date
of the folder in PERL. (1 Reply)
Hi ,
We have around 22 logs , each has different entries. I have to automate this using shell script. The ideas which am sharing is given below
1) We use only TAIL -100 <location and name of the log> Command to check the logs.
2) We want to check whether the log was updated before 24... (13 Replies)
Hi with the help of Gabriel canepa, i have just edited filename only in his code. The help which i got and he helped is
1) I have around 22 logs and each log should be updated in the last 24 hours from the current timestamp.
2) It should check for ERROR message (not error,Error) in the log and... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Iam running with one issue, since particular date looks like one of the script vanished from the system after restarting of the system.
I dont know which scrit it was but definatelt there should be one.
but might be some logs would be there which have not updated from that day.
so... (2 Replies)
I have a log file which have a date and time at the start of every line.
I need to search the log file starting from a specific time to the end of file.
For example:
Starting point: July 29 2018 21:00:00
End point : end of file
My concern is what if the pattern of `July 29 2018 21:00:00`... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
filesize
FILESIZE(3) 1 FILESIZE(3)filesize - Gets file sizeSYNOPSIS
int filesize (string $filename)
DESCRIPTION
Gets the size for the given file.
PARAMETERS
o $filename
- Path to the file.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the size of the file in bytes, or FALSE (and generates an error of level E_WARNING) in case of an error.
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.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
filesize(3) example
<?php
// outputs e.g. somefile.txt: 1024 bytes
$filename = 'somefile.txt';
echo $filename . ': ' . filesize($filename) . ' bytes';
?>
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
Upon failure, an E_WARNING is emitted.
NOTES
Note
The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache(3) for more details.
Tip
As of PHP 5.0.0, this function can also be used with some URL wrappers. Refer to "Supported Protocols and Wrappers" to determine
which wrappers support stat(3) family of functionality.
SEE ALSO file_exists(3).
PHP Documentation Group FILESIZE(3)