Use filedate, substract current filedate with the filedate of your file in /dir1/sub1/ if result -gt 600 then move files
Thanks, Niel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jhuniepi Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:14 AM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: [plug] subtracting dates in bash script hello to all, in a directory there are list of files. /dir1/sub1/* i want to move those files in /dir1/sub1/* to /dir1/sub2/*, only if the file in /dir1/sub1/ is ten minutes older or more than the current datetime. i created a script but my problem is how do i know if file timestamp is older than the current datetime. it's like this: current datetime - file timestamp. how to do that in bash script? here's my incomplete script : #!/bin/env bash SRCDIR=/dir1/sub1 DESDIR=/dir1/sub2 now=(current date) cd $SRCDIR for f in * do ftimestamp=(file timestamp) if [ -f $f ] then if [ ($now - $ftimestamp) -ge (ten minutes) ] then mv $f $DESDIR echo $f moved to $DESDIR fi fi done #script ends TIA -- cj pangilinan linux user, java programmer _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
