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# 1  
Old 08-17-2010
Count todays created files and old files
Hello experts,

I used following approach to get listing of all files of remote server.
Now I have remote server file information on same server.


Quote:
#Defining variables and assigning values
USR='admin'
PASSWD='abc'
HT='xyz.aaa.com'
FILE='S*.pdf
DIRNAME='/doc'

LsFiles()
{
ftp -n -i $HT <<end_ftp
user $USR $PASSWD
cd $DIRNAME
ls "-lrt *.pdf"
bye
end_ftp
}

LsFiles > list_of_files.txt
I am getting listing in the output.txt


Quote:
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 176201 Aug 17 19:28 1652001_5-31-2010.pdf
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 178860 Aug 17 19:28 1648403_5-31-2010.pdf
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 175665 Aug 17 19:28 1655876_5-31-2010.pdf
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 177563 Aug 17 19:29 1661000_5-31-2010.pdf
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 302814 Aug 17 19:29 1650920_5-31-2010.pdf
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 174484 Aug 15 19:29 1665618_5-31-2010.pdf
-rwxr--r-- 1 504 504 177675 Jun 15 19:29 1655604_5-31-2010.pdf
I want to count today's created files and old files.

I want to compare the numbers i.e. all files were created today
or there are also some old files in the list.

Could you pl. give me a clue?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 08-17-2010
Try this:
Code:
ls --full-time | awk ' BEGIN{ "date \"+%F\"" | getline today } \
   { if($6 == today) ++nFileCreatedToday; else ++nOldFile } \
   END { nFileCreatedToday=0; nOldFile=0; print "Number of files created today:", nFileCreatedToday, "\nNumber of old files: ", nOldFile } '

Note: you need to issue "ls --full-time" instead of "ls -lrt" to get the file listing.
Last edited by kevintse; 08-17-2010 at 12:30 PM..
# 3  
Old 08-17-2010
Thanks Kevin for quick reply.

Code:
ls --full-time | awk ' BEGIN{ "date \"+%F\"" | getline today } \   { if($6 == today) ++nFileCreatedToday; else ++nOldFile } \   END { print "Number of files created today:", nFileCreatedToday, "\nNumber of old Files: " nOldFile } ''


The files are located in remote server.

Do you think above statement will work in FTP connection?
# 4  
Old 08-17-2010
OK, ssh to the remote server and get the file listing.

Code:
ssh user@server "ls --full-time /your/dir" | \
   awk ' BEGIN{ "date \"+%F\"" | getline today } \
   { if($6 == today) ++nFileCreatedToday; else ++nOldFile } \
   END { nFileCreatedToday=0; nOldFile=0; print "Number of files created today:", nFileCreatedToday, "\nNumber of old files: ", nOldFile } '

# 5  
Old 08-17-2010
Kevin Thanks again for quick reply.

I modified the script was per your suggetion.

The directory has 5000 files but still it says

Code:
Number of files created today: 0
Number of old files:  0

# 6  
Old 08-17-2010
Ensure
Code:
ssh user@server "ls --full-time /modify/this/to/your/directory/"

returns something.
# 7  
Old 08-17-2010
Code:
USR='admin'
PASSWD='abc'
HT='xyz.aaa.com'
FILE='S*.pdf
DIRNAME='/doc'
 
ssh $USR@$HT "ls --full-time /doc" | \
   awk ' BEGIN{ "date \"+%F\"" | getline today } \
   { if($6 == today) ++nFileCreatedToday; else ++nOldFile } \
   END { nFileCreatedToday=0; nOldFile=0; print "Number of files created today:", nFileCreatedToday, "\nNumber of old files: ", nOldFile } '

Returns
Code:
Number of files created today: 0
Number of old files:  0
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