DIR/SINCE

[Niall76]

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

[Oswald Knoppers_1 · Accepted solution]

$ 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

[The Brit]

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.

[Jan van den Ende]

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

[Robert Atkinson]

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.