Try this:
Should sort all the files in the directory in order of oldest to newest.
Remember what xargs does for a living. If there are too many filenames to fit on one command line, xargs will construct as many command lines as needed to process them all. The set of filenames output by each commandline will be sorted by date. But the overall list of filenames will not be sorted. But in the special case where there are so few filenames that one command line is enough, this will work.
I'm writing a script to find the oldest file in a directory. I know this can be done by using ls -rt | tail -1 but these are rather large directories and that can be somewhat slow since the script will be running constantly.
Are there any other ways to do this that would be faster? I looked to... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I need your assistance in removing the oldest file in a directory.
I posted the same thread 3 days back and I got the following answer
ls -1 -t | tail -1 | xargs rm
which is not covering the case when there are directories older than the oldest file.
So, could you please... (2 Replies)
I am using a bash script to perform some automated maintenance on files in a directory. When I run the script using $sh -x script.sh <directory> the script works fine. It sets the variable to the oldest file, and continues on. However when I run the script like this $./script.sh <directory>, it... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbie to scripting and I need your help regarding finding the oldest file in a particular directory. My intention is to remove that oldest file.
Are there any options available with the "find" command to do this..
Thanks in advance for your help
Pavan (4 Replies)
I am trying to determine the oldest and most recent files in a huge directory. I am using an ls -tr statement outside my find statement. The directory is too big and I am getting an "arg list too long" error. Is there something I can put in my find statement that doesn't create a list to... (2 Replies)
Hey! I have found similar posts both here and on other sites regarding this, but I cannot seem to get my script to work. I want to delete the oldest file in a test directory if there are more than two files. My script is currently:
#!/bin/bash
MEPATH=/usr/local/bin/test
FILECOUNT=`ls... (4 Replies)
I'm using a directory naming convention to organize files as exemplified here:
2012/Aug/week-20-Aug/23-Thu/tuv.txt
2012/Aug/week-27-Aug/30-Thu/abc.txt
2012/Sep/week-27-Aug/01-Sat/def.txt
2012/Sep/week-03-Sep/07-Fri/xyz.txt
How do I write a command that will list the file names abc.txt and... (4 Replies)
Hi,
My apologies if my query is already available on this forum but I am new and could not find.
I need a script to list all directories/sub directories and files with permissions/groups/owners. The script would run from home directory and should capture every directory. How do I do this?
... (4 Replies)
Hi
I am unable to find files, those are present anywhere in the same directory tree, based on the creation date. I need to find the files with their path, as I need to create them in another location and move them. I need some help with a script that may do the job.
Please help (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sam192837465
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
notmuch-search
NOTMUCH-SEARCH(1) General Commands Manual NOTMUCH-SEARCH(1)NAME
notmuch-search - Search for messages matching the given search terms.
SYNOPSIS
notmuch search [options...] <search-term>...
DESCRIPTION
Search for messages matching the given search terms, and display as results the threads containing the matched messages.
The output consists of one line per thread, giving a thread ID, the date of the newest (or oldest, depending on the sort option) matched
message in the thread, the number of matched messages and total messages in the thread, the names of all participants in the thread, and
the subject of the newest (or oldest) message.
See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
Supported options for search include
--format=(json|text)
Presents the results in either JSON or plain-text (default).
--output=(summary|threads|messages|files|tags)
summary
Output a summary of each thread with any message matching the search terms. The summary includes the thread ID, date, the num-
ber of messages in the thread (both the number matched and the total number), the authors of the thread and the subject.
threads
Output the thread IDs of all threads with any message matching the search terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a
JSON array (--format=json).
messages
Output the message IDs of all messages matching the search terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a JSON array
(--format=json).
files
Output the filenames of all messages matching the search terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a JSON array (--for-
mat=json).
tags
Output all tags that appear on any message matching the search terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a JSON array
(--format=json).
--sort=(newest-first|oldest-first)
This option can be used to present results in either chronological order (oldest-first) or reverse chronological order (new-
est-first).
Note: The thread order will be distinct between these two options (beyond being simply reversed). When sorting by oldest-first the
threads will be sorted by the oldest message in each thread, but when sorting by newest-first the threads will be sorted by the
newest message in each thread.
By default, results will be displayed in reverse chronological order, (that is, the newest results will be displayed first).
--offset=[-]N
Skip displaying the first N results. With the leading '-', start at the Nth result from the end.
--limit=N
Limit the number of displayed results to N.
--exclude=(true|false|flag)
Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude from the search results (the default) or not. The extra option flag
only has an effect when --output=summary In this case all matching threads are returned but the "match count" is the number of
matching non-excluded messages in the thread.
SEE ALSO notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), notmuch-hooks(5), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)Notmuch 0.13.2 2012-06-01 NOTMUCH-SEARCH(1)