zipping files

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Dear Experts,

I need a script which will zipped the files older than 2 days.
but i dont want to use find . * -mtime 2.
Is there is any other method to achive this task.
i will ececute the script daily.

Regards,

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man find

find . -type f -mtime +2 -exec gzip {} \;
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Not specifically picking on you - and sorry if this is something offending

Why is that you don't want to use mtime - there should be some reason behind that. I hope so :slight_smile:

If that is something shareable please do let us know about that.

Reason could be anything
1) don't like mtime
2) trying out different options
3) option not supported ( this is not obvious )
4) or any other reason

options are there to help us, ease of usage and quickly achieve what is required.

I don't understand why a specific option should not be used.

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Simple option,

  1. use `ls -al`
  2. look at the 6th field and play with that timestamp.
  • nilesh