topic Re: count files created in Operating System - HP-UX

count files created

Pando — Sun, 29 May 2005 23:27:04 GMT

Dear Gurus,
I have a files created everyday. And i would like to have a trend how many files are created each day.
I would like to ask for counting files everyday including the files created yesterday or a month ago?
Is this possible?

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Re: count files created

Thayanidhi — Mon, 30 May 2005 00:29:34 GMT

Hi,

What about
"find / -name *.* -print -ctime...."

Use ctime ->created time
atime -> accesed time
mtime -> modified time

with appropriate time value

Pipe to a "wc -l" to get the count.

Refer to manpage of find.

Just a thought.

Regds
TT

Re: count files created

Indira Aramandla — Mon, 30 May 2005 00:40:56 GMT

Hi Fernando,

To find the file count in a directory you can do this.

ls -l | wc -l. This will give the number of file count in the directory.

If you want the number of file for a particular period, then do this.

For example the file names have log as a common string.
find . -name "*log*" -mtime +3 -exec ls -l {} \; | wc -l

This will give the count for files called as *log* with modified date as 3 days back.

Indira A

Re: count files created

Suraj Singh_1 — Mon, 30 May 2005 01:00:15 GMT

Hi All,

I see a problem in using find command here, any option like -mtime, -atime or -ctime would give the output as n-1 to n multiples of 24 hrs, where 'n' is the nubner specified after say -ctime.

Thus giving -ctime 1 would give all the files created since current time previous day.

What Fernando needs is only files created today. We would need to write a script which checks the file create date with current date kind of logic.

Regards

Re: count files created

Pando — Mon, 30 May 2005 02:55:39 GMT

Is there a way to list the date of the file creation?

Re: count files created

john korterman — Mon, 30 May 2005 03:43:27 GMT

Hi Fernando,

unfortunately, unix does not register any data concerning file creation time: you only have the last time the content of the file was modified, the last time the file itself was accessed, and the last time the inode info of the file was modified.
The last time the inode info was modified is probably your best chance, as it may coincide with the creation time of the file. However, if anyone has changed access rights, user/group relationships etc. after file creation time - and you cannot tell if that is the case - it will of course not work.

regards,
John K.