On 4/5/06, jhuniepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Using stat and data commands:
date +%s --> epoch seconds from present date
stat -c %Y $file --> epoch seconds of target file
You can expand more from this:
x-- begin snip --x
test $(expr `date +%s` - `stat -c %Y $file`) -ge 600\
&& echo "$file modified more than 10 mins ago"
x-- end snip --x
Or if you like to use `find`:
x-- begin snip --x
if [ "`find $FILE -mmin +10`" ]
then
echo "$FILE is more than 10 minutes old"
else
echo "$FILE is a youngster"
fi
x-- end snip --x
Hope this helps.
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Jed R. Mallen
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