You have a few issues that keep you from reaching your goal:
Most filesystems do not keep track of when a file was created; the struct stat st_ctime field stores the timestamp of the last file status change. A file's status changes when a file is created, when a file's size changes (by truncating the contents of the file or by writing data to a position greater than the file's current size), or by changing the file's mode or access permissions.
The find -ctime primary doesn't work on calendar dates; it works on multiple of 24 hours from the time you invoke find.
To find files whose last file contents modification time occurs on a given calendar date (or other period of time unrelated to when you invoke find), use touch to create one file with timestamps corresponding to the start time of your desired time period (startTimeFile in this example) and create another file with timestamps corresponding to the end time of your desired time period (endTimeFile) and then use:
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Hi,
I have writtena script that will recursivly go into subdirecotries and report out what files there are in there that have not been accessed over various date ranges.
I do this using a number of find commands:
find . -path './.snapshot' -prune -o -type f -atime -8
find... (4 Replies)
Hi people,
I have 2 files, one with a list of non consecutive ranges (File1.txt), where each range begins with the value in column 1
and finishes with the value in column 2 in the same line, as can be seen above.
215312581156279 215312581166279
215312582342558 215312582357758... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Please anyone help to achive this using perl or unix scripting .
This is date in my table 20090224,based on the date need to check the files,If file exist for that date then increment by 1 for that date and check till max date 'i.e.20090301 and push those files .
files1_20090224... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
The developers want me to search and capture the weblogic log, you know this big logs of htmls.
They want to me to have ranges on the date and time. Like
from "2010-01-20 14:04:46,186" to "2010-01-20 15:00:12,490"
I can only do this,
cat /usr/local/bea/logs_prod1/debug.log |... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
The developers want me to search and capture the weblogic log, you know this big logs of htmls.
They want to me to have ranges on the date and time. Like
from "2010-01-20 14:04:46,186" to "2010-01-20 15:00:12,490"
I can only do this,
cat /usr/local/bea/logs_prod1/debug.log... (1 Reply)
I have been struggling with a script to automate some security related activities. I have it pretty much working, all except the search. I have an input file formatted as such:
216.234.246.158 216.234.246.158 ``
24.249.221.22 24.249.221.200 ``
24.249.226.0 ... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i want to make script. In a directory everyday( exclude sat and sun) in between 10 pm to 1 am there are 2 files comes and when file comes it will mail us. Format for files is mentioned below.
please help me on making this, and also have year end consider and if files come after 12 am it... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am having below tables used in oracle
bal
ID BALANCE BAL_DATE
1 -11.71 01-JAN-05 00.00.00
1 -405.71 02-JAN-05 00.00.00
1 -760.71 03-JAN-05 00.00.00
ref_table
PRODUCT EFF_FROM_DATE EFF_TO_DATE TYPE MIN_AMT MAX_AMT CHARGE
12 01-JAN-05 00.00.00 01-JAN-06... (6 Replies)
Hi There, Good Day !!
I have txt file containing data in the below format. There are many lines, here i have mentioned for example.
cat remo.txt
2/3/2017 file1
3/4/2016 file2
6/6/2015 file5
1/1/2018 file3
4/3/2014 file4
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-
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I need to grep the file names for given date rage... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumar85shiv
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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
Report touch bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report touch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 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
The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'touch invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 TOUCH(1)