find files onder than 15 minutes

sveera · August 5, 2005, 3:05pm

Hi Friends,

i have to write a script to raise a flag if there are any files that are older than 15 minutes in the directory.The directory is supplied as the parameter to the script.
please help with a sample script.

Thanks in advance
veera

Perderabo · August 5, 2005, 4:01pm

Please read the rules:
(4) Do not 'bump up' questions if they are not answered promptly. No duplicate or cross-posting and do not report a post where your goal is to get an answer more quickly.

I have closed the duplicate thread.

98_1LE · August 9, 2005, 10:39pm

This is cheesy, but meets the requirements (the right way would be to touch the file back 15 minutes)

#!/bin/bash

RCPT="username@domain.zzz" # This is who to mail the list to

touch /tmp/.adkojha

if [ "$1" = "" ]
   then echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/dir"
          exit 1
fi
cd $1

sleep 900
find . -newer /tmp/.adkojha | mail $RCPT
rm -f /tmp/.adkojha

Sorry it has been a long day

vino · August 10, 2005, 1:23am

98_1le:

This is cheesy, but meets the requirements (the right way would be to touch the file back 15 minutes)
#!/bin/bash

RCPT="username@domain.zzz" # This is who to mail the list to

touch /tmp/.adkojha

if [ "$1" = "" ]
   then echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/dir"
   exit 1
fi
cd $1

sleep 900
find . -newer /tmp/.adkojha | mail $RCPT
rm -f /tmp/.adkojha
Sorry it has been a long day

A question. Why use a touch and then a rm.

find has -amin and -mmin option. That can be used as well.

Is there any reason as such, that these do not serve the purpose ?

Vino

sveera · August 10, 2005, 11:04am

Hi Friends,

Thanks a lot for your response.yes i can always use find with amin and mmin.

And the reply given by 98 1 LE is also helpful.
Once again thank you friends
Bye
veera

Perderabo · August 10, 2005, 11:31am

vino, amin and mmin are not standard. GNU added them to their version of find which Linux uses. They will not work with the standard find command.

vino · August 10, 2005, 11:38am

Perderabo,
Thanks much.

vino

sveera · August 10, 2005, 1:38pm

Hi friends,

Thanks for your reponses .But let me put forth my clearly what i am trying to do.
I need to check a directory for some .sql files from the script.
From this shell script i am executing all the .sqls.
But if there are any .sqls older than 15 minutes then a flag should be raised.
If there are any .sqls less than 15 minutes old then they have to be processed as usual.

Please help.
Thanks in advance
Veera

infierno · August 10, 2005, 5:26pm

is this a standard compliant?, Perberado, correct me if not.

(this shows only files which have not been modified in the last 15 minutes, you can use -15m insted of the '+' to see what files have been changed in the last 15m)

$ find . -mtime +15m -print

98_1LE · August 10, 2005, 7:22pm

I learned something new today. Thanks

EDIT: It does not seem to work using the standard Solaris 9 find:

/tmp/a > ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--   1 chuck   sysadmin       0 Aug 10 18:23 file
-rw-r--r--   1 chuck   sysadmin       0 Aug  8 17:11 fileb
/tmp/a > find . -mtime +15m
/tmp/a > find . -mtime -15m
.
./fileb
./file

sveera · August 11, 2005, 8:42am

Hi Friends,

Thanks a lot to all of you for your suggestions. i used them on Solaris system and they are working .But the same switches are not working on a
HP-UX system.
Is there any option that i have to use on a HP-UX System ?

I need to raise a flag if there are any files older than 15 minutes in a directory.

Please help.
Thanks in advance
Veera

sveera · August 11, 2005, 3:48pm

Hi Friends,

I couldnt get any option on HP-UX for finding files older than 15 minutes.
but the solutions that i got from you friends worked on Solaris and Linux.
So i am using a c executable file for getting the age of a file and then raising a flag if it is older than 15 minutes.

Thanks for all your help
Bye
Veera