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Reputation: 6350

Grep file modified in 24 hours unix

I have to check the user and owner of that file which is modified in last 24 hours .I am not able to understand how could i get the file which is modified in last 24 hour 

ls -lrt /dirpath | grep 'Util'

Output of this command is :

-rw-r--r--  1 user user      186 Apr 11 08:05 Util-04-11.log.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 user user      185 Apr 12 08:05 Util-04-12.log.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 user user      186 Apr 13 08:05 Util-04-13.log.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 user user      186 Apr 14 08:05 Util-04-14.log.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 user user      278 Apr 20 08:05 Util-04-20.log

Now i want to check user and owner of file which is modified in last 24 hours.How we can do this in unix.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 459

Answers (2)

J. Chomel
J. Chomel

Reputation: 8395

You could use the find command specifying creation time is less than one day (-ctime 0), then use xargs to perform your ls:

find /dirpath -name "*Util*" -ctime 0 -type f |xargs ls -lrt

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 0

Johannes Thorn
Johannes Thorn

Reputation: 932

You can use find to filter files with corresponding modified date.

From the man page:

find $HOME -mtime 0

Search for files in your home directory which have been modified in the last twenty-four hours. This command works this way because the time since each file was last modified is divided by 24 hours and any remainder is discarded. That means that to match -mtime 0, a file will have to have a modification in the past which is less than 24 hours ago.

With that in mind you can use the -exec option to build the following command

find /dirpath -mtime 0 -exec stat -c "%n %U %G" '{}' \;

Upvotes: 1

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