dummie ksh

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Please help me with a newbie ksh question:

I want a script in ksh (under Solaris 8 - SPARC) who runs a "ls -lR" command in some directory and it looks after all the files with the same date as the current one and/or created in the last 24 hours (or N hours).

The script should do:

  • if no files with the same date were found display "no new files found..."
  • otherwise display "new files found..." and also all the lines (only those lines from my "ls -lR" command)
    and/or
    the same for the files created in the last N hours.

I thought this is very easy but I encountered difficulties when I tried to avoid displaying files with the same day, month but not the same year...

BTW the part with "the same date" might be done in one line command?

2

You could try this link to find files older than particular number of days. Instead, of 30 you could try 1 day old. or any number of days you want to.

or

You could try to find a particular date using date calcand then try this link

3

Try this:

ls -l $(find . -type f -mtime -1)

4

This is not going to work where there are lots of files, you'll receive an argument list that is too long.

Try

$ find . -type f -mtime -1 -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

Cheers
ZB