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KaverappaKU
KaverappaKU

Reputation: 65

Listing of files

I want to list the last 1 hour files which has .sh extension. I am currently using the following:

ls -l *.sh | find "/root/" -mmin -60 | awk '{print $9}'

However this command isn't working as expected.

Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 57

Answers (2)

user unknown
user unknown

Reputation: 36259

Did you mean:

find . -name "*.sh" -mmin -60 -ls | awk '{print $9}'
1
1

The $9 then gives me the day of month.

A similar result is possible, purely by gnu-find:

find . -name "*.sh" -mmin -60 -printf "%Ad\n"
01
01

except for the leading zeros. There are 3 dates possible:

%Ak    File's last access time in the format specified by k, which is either `@' or a directive for the C `strftime' function.  The possible values for k
                 are listed below; some of them might not be available on all systems, due to differences in `strftime' between systems.
%Ck    File's last status change time in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A.
%Tk    File's last modification time in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A.

(from the manpage of gnu-find).

Upvotes: 1

Allan
Allan

Reputation: 12456

You can just use a find command to do this:

find <DIR> -type f -name '*.sh' -mmin -60

or

find <DIR> -type f -name '*.sh' -mmin -60 -executable

Explanations:

  1. <DIR> is the target directory where you want to search
  2. -type f to force to look for files
  3. -name '*.sh' to look for files with the sh extension
  4. -mmin -60 to look for files that have been modified in less than 1 hour
  5. -executable if you want to add the constraint that the file have execution permission.
  6. -maxdepth 1 to look only for files in folder or use a higher depth if you want to look until N levels. You command becomes: find <DIR> -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.sh' -mmin -60 -executable

Upvotes: 2

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