Getting files from the directory and emailing them

[HHG]

Hi All,

Can anyone help with the following.

In a directory I have the following:-
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 17077 May 1 15:23 1790
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 31651 May 1 11:31 1789
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 17372 Apr 30 15:25 1788
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 24651 Apr 30 11:32 1787
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 24627 Apr 29 15:26 1786
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 32878 Apr 29 11:32 1785

The last field of each line is the file name e.g. 1790,1789

I am trying to write a script that will pick up all the files created each day and email them to an external email.

Any clues on how I might read the directory so that it only gives me a list of files created on the 1st May.

Any help would be very grate. Thanks in advance.

 

[PHV]

What have you tried so far and where in your code are you stuck ?
Tips:
man find
man touch

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[HHG]

Hi -
Not started it yet as I am stuck on stuck on how to actually ready the files and check the date is current date.

Any help would be grate. I can do the rest email etc..
Thanks

 

[PHV]

Have you read the 2 man pages I suggested you ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[HHG]

Thanks PHV I have used the find command with the -ctime option. All works find so far.
Thanks again

 

[HHG]

Hi again,

I'm a little stuck now on multiple attachment of files. I have done the following which works, but I need some bodytext. Any one suggest how I might include the body text please.

(for file in {directory path/*; do
uuencode ${file} $(basename ${file} )
done) | mailx -s "Subject of Title" {email addrress}

 

[SamBones]

How about something like this...

#!/bin/ksh

TO=[ignore]someone@somewhere.com[/ignore]

(cat <<-MSG
Hi Everybody,

Here are a bunch of files from $(hostname) sent on $(date).

Please enjoy.
MSG
for FILE in /path/to/files/*
do
   uuencode ${FILE} $(basename ${FILE})
done
) | mailx -s "Files from $(hostname) as of $(date)" ${TO}

 

[HHG]

Sam - this works grate. Can you help with the find statement. For some reason the find statement I had before is not picking up files created today.

syntax I am using is:-

find . -ctime 0 -print

Now I am getting all of the files. Anyone have any ideas please. Thanks in advance.

 

[Annihilannic]

Generally -ctime is not very useful, you may find -mtime (i.e. the last time the field was modified) more appropriate?

In any case I can't see why this would end up getting all of the files, can you show us the code around it?

Annihilannic.

 

[HHG]

Hi all - thanks for your time and help.

I have now managed to resolve it by using the command touch and find as below for anyone who wishes to find files that have been created on the current day :-

touch -t `date +%y%m%d0000` testfile

find . \( -name '*' \) -newer testfile -exec ls {} \;

 

[SamBones]

What is the purpose of the "\( -name '*' \)"? That's not really needed as it will patch all names without you having to specify '*'.

The only thing I would add is maybe "-type f". Otherwise it will return directory names too, and that may not be what you want.

touch -t `date +%y%m%d0000` testfile

find . [b]-type f[/b] -newer testfile -exec ls {} \;

 

[SamBones]

So putting it all together, this maybe?

#!/bin/ksh

TO=someone@somewhere.com

touch -t `date +%y%m%d0000` testfile

(cat <<-MSG
Hi Everybody,

Here are a bunch of files from $(hostname) sent on $(date).

Please enjoy.
MSG
find . -type f -newer testfile -print | while read for FILE
do
   uuencode ${FILE} $(basename ${FILE})
done
) | mailx -s "Files from $(hostname) as of $(date)" ${TO}

 

[SamBones]

Oops! Make that while...

while read FILE

Take out the "for".