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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:57:19 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
Subject: Re: Advice on where to look to solve a problem
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Steve,

This is elementary Unix script programming. Well, maybe intermediate scripting.

The "find" command will do everything you want. Read the man page ("man 
find"). It's chock full 'o options.

I do suggest you clarify your file age criteria. File time stamps have 
approximately second-level resolution (though find gives you only 
minutes or days as an age specification) so saying "older than the 
current date" sounds a little ambiguous. (No doubt you know what you 
mean. Just be sure you get it straight before writing your script or 
developing your find incantation.)

Find also allows you to use the modification time of an existing file 
as the age reference. In conjunction with this, you might want to 
review the capabilities of the "touch" command, which allows to you set 
the modification time of a file to an arbitrary value.

Good luck.

Randall Schulz


At 07:31 2003-07-08, Steve wrote:
>Hi;
>
>I'm on windows 2000 with cygwin.
>
>I need to make a script that will check all of the file modified dates 
>on all of the files in a list of directories.   If any of these dates 
>is older then the current date I want to print the name of the file 
>and the date to a file.
>
>I'm new to bash scripting and many unix commands.  What are the 
>commands that I want to loook at that could do these things for me?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Steve


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