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curious
curious

Reputation: 1554

How to tar directories that do not contain files accessed the last day in shell scripting?

How to find directories that do not contain files last accessed within 1 day and tar them under the shell? i.e:

  ./
    directory1/
    directory2/directory3/directory/file3
    directory3/directory6/file5

if file3 has been accessed within 1 day then after the execution of the script i would like that:

./directory1.tgz
./directory3/directory6.tgz

Upvotes: 1

Views: 134

Answers (1)

Jo So
Jo So

Reputation: 26511

I tried hard to come up with a single big find command, but here is a little shell instead:

for i in ./*
do
    test -d "$i" || continue
    test -z "$(find "$i" -type f -atime -1)" || continue
    tar zcf "$i".tgz "$i"
done

Upvotes: 1

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