Re: oldest and newest file/directory within a directory structure

Thanks for your input. It has given me an idea for one way to approach
this:

I could create a loop that performs a find on the directory structure
and keep incrementing the mtime value as long as data is being returned.
Hmmm... not pretty but, it would probably provide the functionality that
I am looking for.

Thanks

Davids

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N. Leenders
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:48 PM
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Subject: Re: oldest and newest file/directory within a directory
structure

Here is a script (careful, it has wrapped), that gets rid of older files

in /tmp that don't belong to certain users. It makes use of the
opensource find utility. Different versions of "find" may behave a
little
differently. Maybe you can make use of "find" for your purposes too.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# clean /tmp
/opt/freeware/bin/find /tmp -type f -mtime +32 ! -user 0 ! -user 202 !
-user 222 -exec rm -f {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
/opt/freeware/bin/find /tmp -type l -mtime +32 ! -user 0 ! -user 202 !
-user 222 -exec rm -f {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
/opt/freeware/bin/find /tmp -type d -mtime +32 -empty ! -user 0 ! -user
202 ! -user 222 -exec rm -rf {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
/opt/freeware/bin/find /tmp -type p -mtime +32 ! -user 0 ! -user 202 !
-user 222 -exec rm -f {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1


Nadine Leenders
HPC System Administrator, Research Support
Academic Information and Communication Technologies
University of Alberta


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Taylor, David wrote:

Hi *,



Does anyone know of a way to find the oldest and newest file within a
directory structure - to include subdirectories too?



I am writing a script to do some reporting on various directories
(size,
# of files, # of directories, etc..) and would also like to be able to
identify the oldest and newest file within each directory structure
too.



TIA



David




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