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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find Oldest file in a directory tree Post 97224 by aigles on Friday 27th of January 2006 09:04:55 AM
Old 01-27-2006
Try and adapt this ksh script :

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# Usage: $0 [directory]
#
oldest_file=

ls -1R ${1-} | \
awk -v dir="${1-}" '
        BEGIN {
           if (dir !~ /\/$/) 
              dir = dir "/"
           oldest_file_in_dir = 1;
        }
        /:$/ {
           dir = substr($0,1,length-1) "/";
           oldest_file_in_dir = 1;
           next;
        }
        oldest_file_in_dir {
           print dir  $0;
           oldest_file_in_dir = 0;
           next;
        }
    ' | \
while read file
do
   if [ -z "$oldest_file" ]
   then
      oldest_file="$file"
   else
      [[ "$file" -nt "$oldest_file" ]] && continue
      oldest_file="$file"
   fi
done

echo "Oldest File: $oldest_file"

Jean-Pierre.
 

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