Re: Need help writing a script

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: 25 Oct 2004 00:52:34 GMT

On 2004-10-24, ray wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

   Please do not post HTML to Usenet.

> I am trying to write a script that reads the files in a directory and =
> prints the name of the files that are older than days or the size is =
> more than 10MB. I know I have to use ls -l and pipe it to grep, but =
> don't know how to compare date or size.

   You need "find", not "ls":

days=666 ## adjust to taste
big=+10000000c
dir= ## whatever

find ${dir:-.} \( -mtime +$days -o -size $big \) -print 

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