Script to Analyze folders and subfolders

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I would like to know if there is a script out there that someone may have already written that I can use to analyze folders and sub folders on my AIX system.
It can be in perl or a basic korn script.

Thanks in advance.

2

Scripts are around that look at many different things. What are you hoping to learn?
-large files
-old files
-files from specific users
etc...

3

I am looking for a bit of both. Mainly old files. I would like to scan a server to see if there are some files that can be removed from the server. I run weekly backups and if there are some stale files that could be removed from my backups.

Thanks

4

Have a look at the manpage for the "find" command. It can do all of that and more.

5

hi,

For example,

if you want to remove the files older than 30 days means ,

find . -mtime +30 -exec rm {}\;

the above command will search for the files in current directory and removes the one which is older than 30 days.

6

I dont want to remove the files just yet. I just want the output to be generated to a file so I know what to clean up.

Thanks

7

as it's been previously suggested - look into 'man find'.

8

oh and dump the output into a csv file.