Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

Find files older then today & display with timestamp info

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find files older then today & display with timestamp info
# 1  
Old 01-02-2009
Find files older then today & display with timestamp info
Small query-

I want to do some operation on all the files older then today. Before I do that operation, i want to verify if the command works properly or not.

Surprisingly, the command below returns me file, which are created today -

find /mrk_archive/PG/ftp/incomming/gbs/2008 -type f -mtime +1 -print| ls -lst | more

Is there any other way to see the files selected by find , sorted as per the date with the timestamp information?

Thanks & a Happy New Year !!
Last edited by kedar.mehta; 02-19-2009 at 05:10 PM..
# 2  
Old 01-02-2009
mtime is the right option, just try incrementing to 2+. BTW, you can use -ls as an option to find rather than print and you won't have to pipe to the ls command.
Padow
# 3  
Old 01-02-2009
Thanks, man..

One surprising thing,

Both of command below returns me the same set of result.
  • find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime +0 -ls
  • find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime +1 -ls
Where as,
find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime 0 -ls
returns results of previsous day.

Consider today is 2nd jan, then it shows all only results of 1st Jan .. !!
Last edited by kedar.mehta; 02-19-2009 at 05:11 PM..
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find files from only today

This finds files from yesterday and today. I need it to find only files from today. sudo find /home/andy -iname "*.sh" -mtime -1 -print (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: drew77
8 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Error when connecting to remote server to find files with timestamp today's day

I am connecting to remote server and try to check if files with timestamp as Today's day are on the directory. Below is my code TARFILE=${NAME}.tar TARGZFILE=${NAME}.tar.gz ssh ${DESTSERVNAME} 'cd /export/home/iciprod/download/let/monthly; Today=`date +%Y%m%d`; if ;then echo "We... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: digioleg54
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

To check timestamp in logfile and display lines upto 3 hours before current timestamp

Hi Friends, I have the following logfile. Currently time in india is 07/31/2014 12:33:34 and i have the following content in logfile. I want to display only those entries which contain string 'Exception' within last 3 hours. In this case, it would be the last line only I can get the... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: srkmish
12 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Display files based on particular file timestamp

Hi, I have requirement to list out files that are created after particular file. ex. I have below files in my directory. I want to display files created after /dirdat/CG1/cg004440 file. ./dirdat/CG1/cg004438 09/07/14 0:44:05 ./dirdat/CG1/cg004439 09/07/14 6:01:48 ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: tmalik79
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete files older than today

is it -mtime +1 as i need all files older than today to be deleted (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dinjo_jo
6 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Getting all the files modified today & store the names in a variable as , separated

Hi all, I have a question. I have a folder. I want to find the list of files that are modified today and store all those file names in a variable as comma separated values. I thought of using "find . -mtime 0" command to find the list of files modified today. Also to get those values of file... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: ananthi_ku
10 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

display the files in a folder which are older than 1 hour

Hi, I have some files in a folder with different time stamps and I want to display the files which are older than 1 hour. i tried with find. need urgent help. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: vgs
7 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

display the files in a folder which are older than 1 hour

Hi, I have some files in a folder with different time stamps and I want to display the files which are older than 1 hour. i tried with find. need urgent help. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vgs
3 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find files older than 20 days & not use find

I need to find files that have the ending of .out and that are older than 20 days. However, I cannot use find as I do not want to search in the directories that are underneath the directory that I am searching in. How can this be done?? Find returns files that I do not want. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: halo98
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to find today's files & send to another server?

Hi All, My script has to find todays modified( less than 24 hrs) files & send it another server using SCP. what I wrote is find . -type f -mtime -1 | xargs ls -ltr ## to find today's files, but its giving my sh_history file also, I don't require this file at all. scp... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: zinu
4 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question