UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All:

I a website with over 1800 pages in all HTML and I am trying to figure out, what is the best way for me to see when the image files were last accessed.

Reason being, I am sure I have images in there that were not deleted when a page was taken offline or whatever and I would like to clean up some space.

I have been messing around with some Unix Commands but I cannot seem to get either stat() or atime to work for me when logged into the root.

Is there something I am missing here that someone can help with?

Thanks

Paul

What is your system? What is your shell?

Also: Just the last access times may not tell you if these images are "needed" if they are referenced in a webpage.

Also, your system, depending on what it is, may not bother updating atimes.

If these images are being accessed from your web pages, say from Perl or PHP, or other Webserver backend, perhaps adding a call to the system logs as they're being served up might be worth trying. Then after time you would have some kind of information about the images in perspective of when they're served. Consider a simple SQLite DB as well.

Thanks guys for the help. I was thinking that if a file was accessed say 2006 or so, then I would know it is not being called in a page. I guess that is not right then.

Thanks again