topic Re: DIR/SINCE in Operating System - OpenVMS

DIR/SINCE

Niall76 — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:31:03 GMT

Hi,

I wanted to create a 'symbol' shortcut on my system called RECENT. I wanted RECENT to do a list on the directory of everything new in the last 5 minutes. Normally I have to SHOW TIME and do a DIR/SIN of the current time - 5 minutes. If possible, it would be great I if could do something like RECENT 5 for new items created in the last 5 minutes or RECENT 1 for items created in the last minute.
Any and all help is much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Niall

Re: DIR/SINCE

Oswald Knoppers_1 — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:56:27 GMT

$ type sys$login:recent.com
$ tim=f$cvt("-0-0:''p1'","absolute")
$ dir/since="''tim'"

and make a symbol:

$ recent:==@sys$login:recent.com

Oswald

Re: DIR/SINCE

The Brit — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:10:54 GMT

Niall,

simpler to use a delta time in this instance.

$ recent :== Dir/since="-00:05"

you could add additional qualifiers, such as;

$ recent :== Dir/Mod/Sinc="-00:05"

to list files modified in the past 5 minutes.

Dave.

Re: DIR/SINCE

Jan van den Ende — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:34:41 GMT

Niall,

To extend on Dave:

>>>

$ recent :== Dir/since="-00:05"

you could add additional qualifiers, such as;

$ recent :== Dir/Mod/Sinc="-00:05"
<<<

Use his first assign of "recent" i.e.

$ recent :== Dir/since="-00:05"

And then use
$recent
or
$ recent /mod
or even
$ recent / backup
but also
$ recent /full

In other words, ANY qualifier which does not conflict with /since

... but I like Oswalds solution as well.
In my world I would extend it with the ability to handle more than 59 minutes, but that is not so hard to implement if wished for.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: DIR/SINCE

Robert Atkinson — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:37:56 GMT

Niall, you should also check out QDSB ( http://www.quadratrix.be/qdsb.html ) which allows you to run directory commands sorting the output by a number of options, including dates.

Rob.