Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:48:49 -0600 From: Noel Jones <noeldude@gmail.com> To: brianjohn@fusemail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to find files less than a day old? Message-ID: <cce506b05032912486270cccf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4424.209.87.176.4.1112128232.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> References: <4424.209.87.176.4.1112128232.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>
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> > > FreeBSD box that I am connected to. I think it may be a Solaris 9 box.
> > > Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris?
> > >
> >
> > Maybe the solaris find command supports the -newer option. I think
> > -newer is more widely supported, and likely to be available on
> > Solaris.
> >
> > If necessary, you could then create a reference file using touch with
> > the proper time stamp on it. You can do this automatically within a
> > script, using the date command to figure out the current time. You
> > can calculate the time one hour ago by using a command something like
> > TZ={your timezone 1} date
> >
> >
> > --
> > Noel Jones
> >
> Is there a way that I could do this without using find? I basically just
> need a listing of files to pipe to cat. Is there any easier way to do
> this? If there isn't, could you explain in more explicit email how to
> this?
>
> /Brian
>
Here's some commands that should be pretty portable.
touch `TZ=CST7CDT date "+%m%d%H%M"` /path/to/file
find . -newer /path/to/file -type f | xargs cat > tmp.txt
Adjust the value of TZ to give the proper time in your locale. I'm in
Central Standard Time, which is normally expressed as CST6CDT, so I
added one to get "CST7CDT". This creates a file stamped exactly one
hour ago that find can use as a reference.
An alternative would be to write something in perl or your programming
language of choice.
HTH...
--
Noel Jones
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