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I want to search executable files after a particular time and date ,
i.e.
in a folder if a file has been accessed,modified or changed after a particular date and time ,then that file should be listed , and current date and time should be stored in a file so that when i again run the script ,it will get the last date and time stored in a file and then list the file only if the timestamp of the file is of after the last date and time stored.


Thanks in advance !!

post your effort..

I was trying

find . -type f -mtime 1 -print

try this..

Code:

find . -type f -mtime 1 -ls -long|awk '{print $8" "$9" "$10}' > newfile

What i actually want that after a particular date-time it will list all the files and that date-time is stored in a file .So every time script will run it will read the date-time from a file to search files modified after that date-time.

Thanks in advance

You want
1. start off by listing files newer than a certain date
2. remember today's date
3. run sometime in the future finding only those files changed after today

assume the certain date in number 1 is Aug 1, 2008

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
if [[ ! -r myremember.date ]] ; then 
# first time -set the file time to aug 1 2008
    touch -t 200808010001 myremember.date 
fi
# find files newer than myremember.date 
find /path/to/file -type f -newer myremember.date 

# set file time on myremember.date to today
touch myremember.date

thanks a lot !! it works perfectly