Re: oldest file in a filesystem

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Date:         Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:58:27 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

Dave,

You could do a

      find . -type f -mtime +SOME_NUMBER -ls

and then play with that SOME_NUMBER of days until you get a manageable list of the oldest files.

Or

You could make a for loop like this

for dir in `find . -type d -print`
do
   ls -lart $DIR | egrep -v "^total|\.|\.\." | head -1
done

And you could echo the $DIR or append it to the file name.

Could go a step further and write to a file and then sort the results of the oldest file per subdir to get the oldest file of them
all.

Of course there are better/cleaner ways to skin this cat.

Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
DSE/TCO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

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      Both of these suggestions only sort, by age, at the directory-level. This file-system has ~2000 directories in it. I need to
      find the oldest file in the entire file-system.

      David

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      Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:20 AM
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      ls -Rrlt /fs | head

      works really fast.

      Rick Renison, EDS Canada, DuSC, Oshawa, Ontario
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            Sent: April 29, 2004 9:53 AM
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            Subject: oldest file in a filesystem
            Hi *

            I am trying to trouble-shoot a problem with cache-corruption on an imaging system. It would be very helpful if I could
            locate the oldest file (modified or created) in that cache. Does anyone know of a script that would do this? The cache
            is about 35GB in size and the average file size is ~ 100K.

            The corruption is definitely application-related. We would just like to pinpoint the point in time that it began in order
            to discover the root cause.

            TIA

            David Taylor

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