Monitor the age of a file 1

• Aug 19, 2004

• #2

screwloose

MIS

Apr 13, 2004

316

US

Use find with the '-newer' option.

 

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• Aug 19, 2004

• Thread starter
• #3

mikevanhoff12

Technical User

Aug 19, 2004

4

US

The find [ /dir/.../dir/targetfile.txt - newer /dir/secondfile.txt ]
will identify the file as newer, but within the 15 minute time period. I have not been able to find switches that will allow this. Any suggestions?

 

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• Aug 20, 2004

• #4

columb

IS-IT--Management

Feb 5, 2004

1,231

EU

I would use perl which has good time functions so in pseudo code. Something along the lines of

Code:

#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while (1)
  {
  my ( undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,$mtime) = stat ( "file_to_be_tested" );
  my $now = time;
  my $diff = $now - $mtime;
  $dif /= 60; # convert to mins
  if ( $diff > 15 )
     { system "MyMailRoutine" }
  sleep 60;
  }

I'm sure the perl gurus would laugh at my code but I use something similar and it works

 

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• Aug 23, 2004

• #5

hfaix

MIS

Nov 25, 2003

596

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I don't think it can be done with find. -atime and -mtime are in 24 hour increments (like skulker).

 

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• Aug 24, 2004

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ogniemi

Technical User

Nov 7, 2003

1,041

PL

maybe u can use istat output?

# istat .profile
Inode 28 on device 10/4 File
Protection: rw-r--r--
Owner: 0(root) Group: 0(system)
Link count: 1 Length 266 bytes

Last updated: Thu Apr 22 10:19:26 2004
Last modified: Thu Apr 22 10:19:26 2004
Last accessed: Tue Aug 24 13:09:42 2004

 

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• Aug 24, 2004

• #7

hfaix

MIS

Nov 25, 2003

596

US

Thanks ogniemi. I hadn't seen that one.

 

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