Doing date delta can be done in many languages, but for shell the easiest is the GNU date (which you can add to your system, perhaps as a user local executable) or you can search here for my tool tm2tm.c and compile it.
I some situations, you can "touch marker_file ; sleep 300 ; find ... -newer marker_file ....", for instance if you want to poll a subtree every 5 minutes. If you want to avoid double reporting:
I am uploading files that need to be processed prior to uploading. I will put the files in a directory. My question is how can I write an easy process to kick off a script once a file has been added? Is there an easy way to determine if a file has been added to a directory?
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I am uploading files that need to be processed prior to uploading. I will put the files in a directory. My question is how can I write an easy process to kick off a script once a file has been added? Is there an easy way to determine if a file has been added to a directory?
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hi ,
I would like to ask how to get past 5 minutes system time and date, if i have following to get current time.
# get current time
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime(time);
$year = $year + 1900;
$mon = sprintf ("%02s",$mon+1);
$mday = sprintf ("%02s",$mday);
$hour =... (1 Reply)
hi all,
here is the description to my problem.
input parameters: $date1 & $date2
based on the range i need to select the archived files from the archived directory and moved them in to working directory.
can u please help me in writing the code to select the multiple files based on the... (3 Replies)
The title says it all. I have a upnp server running fuppes that is connected to my xbox360. In order to see the files on the xbox360 i have to manually update and rebuild the database anytime i add or remove files. I have tried cron jobs to do it every 20 min which works, but if I am streaming... (0 Replies)
Currently have an issue were we use a script to load a security .dat key. The script was failing to load stating "Unable to open directory". I ssh'd into the server and performed an ls -la on the /cdrom directory. I show the usual cdrom0 but the directory on the cd should be key but is showing... (0 Replies)
I have run one file.but this file is two different directory is there.I wrote the if loop but one directory to find it the file and another directory is not find.
#!bin/bash
a=/tmp
mau="manual.sh"
if
then
echo `ls -l $mau`
else
echo "file not there"
b=/scr #not find the directory... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
could you help to find a way to get the past 30 mins time in solaris.
version:
bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS solaris 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
I had tried the following ways, it works fine in GNU Linux, but doesn't work in Solaris.
# date
Tue Apr 2 01:01:49 CST... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am attempting to find and copy the two most recently added files to a specific directory, that fit a specific format.
I was able to find the command to list the two most recently added files in directory: ls -1t | head -n 2 The command lists the two files names in a vertical list,... (11 Replies)
Dears,
I am looking for a script which will work as a watch directory.
I ha directory which keep getting files in every 10 mins and some time delay.
I want to monitor if the directory getting the files in every 10 mins if not captured the last received file time and calculate the delay.
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sadique.manzar
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touch
TOUCH(1) User Commands TOUCH(1)NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied.
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD
change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela-
tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu-
mented here but is fully described in the info documentation.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report touch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/touch>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) touch invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 TOUCH(1)