Script - for change files other than *.log,*.out,*.tmp

[Muthyala]

Hi

I need a script to log all the files that have changed in last one day excluding the *.log,*.out,*.tmp files .

I would like the changed files sent to a log file, and have the days changed files emailed.

so, for example, if 5 files change everyday, then only the 5 files of that day will be emailed, BUT, all of the previous files will be retained in the log file....i want to use the log file as an archive, and the email as a notification.

TIA

[Doug O'Leary · Accepted solution]

Hey

find ${dir} -mtime -1 -print | egrep -v "\.tmp|\.out|\.log" | \
tee -a ${log} | mailx -s "File changes: `date +%m/%d/%y`" ${addr}

Hope that helps.

Doug

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

the find command can get the files by itself:

find . -mtime -1 ! \(-name '*.log' -o -name '*.out' -o -name '*.tmp' \) -print |
tee -a log |
mailx -s "File changes $(date +%x)" mailaddr

mfG Peter

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
on my hp-ux 11i the rigth syntax is:

find . -type f -mtime 0 ! \( -name '*.log' -o -name '*.out' -o -name '*.tmp' \) |xargs -i ll {}|tee -a logfile |mailx -s subject ajondoe@hotmnail.com

Tips:
-type f: to get only file chnages and not dir or file in subdirs
-mtime 0: to have file chnages from 24 hours ago to now as from man:
-mtime n True if the file modification time subtracted
from the initialization time is n-1 to n
multiples of 24 h. The initialization time
shall be a time between the invocation of the
find utility and the first access by that
invocation of the find utility to any file
specified in its path operands.

xargs -i ll {}: to chek about file date

HTH,
Art