Shell Programming and Scripting

hi

I am trying to write shell script that must scan a series of filesystems and find files that have not been accessed for over some number
of days and move them to /tmp/old

Did anyone write a such a script before?
Any help is really appreciated.

By accessed do you mean modified or just read..... assuming you want access time

Code:

days=20
find /path/to/files -type f -atime $days | \
while read file
do
           mv $file /tmp/old
done

thank a lot JIM.

Can I also create a log
of each user's files that are relocated and e-mail the log to the owner of the files?

jim mcnamara script is an over kill.
find can execute comands on the files founds.
most of the times piping finds output to xarg or loops is not needed

but if you want to email the user, then you probably shoudl use waht he said, and ad the folowing things

an echo before the find, starting a file with some header like
and echo inside the loop, using >> to add the file names
one or more echos after the loop with some kind of finalization of the email body.

and for the tricky part, for each file, get the user. you can use ls -l, and pipe it to awk. or use some comand like "stat"
create temporal files for each user, with the body of the mail, and keep adding each file you find about that user.

and use mailx comand to send that file to someone

I tried something like this, but it doesnt work.

#!/bin/sh
days=10
find /home -type f -atime $days | \
while read file
do
basename $file >>log.txt
cp $file /tmp/old
owner = find /home -type f -atime +5 -exec ls -l {} \;|awk '{print $3}'
mail -s "Log of the deleted files from your account " $owner@gmail.com < log.txt
done

of course it dosnt.
first of all. when you execute a command and what to put that into a var, you use foward ticks ``
owner=`find /home -type f -atime +5 -exec ls -l {} \;|awk '{print $3}'`

and you move the files before doing the ls. and you even do a second find !!
second, you will be sending a mail for each file, and each mail would contain all the previous file also

and pls use the [code] tags

Code:

#!/bin/sh
days=10
temporal_folder=/tmp/`basename $0`-$$

mkdir $temporal_folder 

find /home -type f -atime $days | \
while read file
do
     owner=`ls -l $file | awk ' { print $3 } '`
     basename $file >> $temporal_folder/$owner
     cp $file /tmp/old
done

for file in $temporal_folder
do
     mail -s "Log of the deleted files from your account " $file@gmail.com < $file
done

rm -rf $temporal_folder

thanks
I will work on it