Script question

[Prashant Zanwar_2]

Hi,

I want to compare the files date with current date of the system. How to do it in a script.

Please reply.

Thanks and regards
Prashant

[RAC_1]

ll|awk '{print $6,$7} will give you dates stamp of a file. Not date "+format youwant" will give you date as you want. With these two things you should be bale to compare the file dates.

Also when comparing, you can use find . -newer option also. Man find for details.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Which scripting language? sh, csh, awk, sed, perl, ...

Please check out A.Clay's date hammer from https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/#Contrib

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Mark Grant]

Well short oof using "find" with the -mtime switch, you could use perl. Not exactly sure what you mean by "compare" but this line of perl will give you the modification time of the file. You can compare this with the output of the perl "time" function in which ever way you want.

perl -e 'print map { (stat $_)[9] } glob "filename"

p.s Thanks Merijn for the "map" lesson :)

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

wheely, that is missing quotes. And comparing to system date (or date script started), better be done with

# perl 'print map { -M } map { glob $_ } @ARGV' file ...

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Prashant Zanwar_2]

I want to do it using KSH and awk, I want to see if file is older than these many days to current date, I want to compress or delete the file.
Actual shell script would be helpful.

Thanks for all responses, I will assign points..
Thanks
Regards
Prashant

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

The command your looking for is:

find -type f -mtime + -exec gzip {} \;

This will gzip files older then the number of days specified.

[Mark Grant]

Merijn,

I see I still need more lessons :)