I'm trying to run an auto-delete script to free up space on a remote server.
The command I'm thinking to use is:
find . -atime +30 -mtime +30 -type f -delete
What I want is to also capture which files were successfully deleted and which failed because of access issue. How should I do this? I think this command below might take care of the failures only, but I'm not sure.
find . -atime +30 -mtime +30 -type f -delete 2>failed_deletions.txt
find out of the box does not print the files it processes. If you want to list the files, add a -print or -ls before the -delete.
This obviously prints all the files it processes, including the ones it fails to delete for whatever reason.
Redirecting standard output to a different file should be trivial to discover; command >stdout 2>stderr
The final command would become
find . -atime +30 -mtime +30 -type f \
-print -delete >success.txt 2>errors.txt
Less performant, but should do what you wanted:
find . -atime +30 -mtime +30 -type f -exec rm -v {} \; >successful.txt 2>failed.txt
find /home/imk-prac/ \( -type f -size -13c -name '*\?plik\?*' \) -o\( -type d -name '\[Kolo1\]*' \)2> /dev/nul;
This command counts normal files which has less than 13 symbols and contains a sequence of symbols ?plik?.
I want to add looking for files which were modified less than 30 days and I wrote this command:
find /home/imk-prac/ -type f -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} \; > /dev/null
I don't know how to combine this two commands in to one.
I wanted to add looking for files with specified quantity of symbols and I found this command:
grep -Po '(^|\s)\S{64}(\s|$)' file
But there is the same problem or even worse, because of grep command.
Thanks for your time and I hope you will help me to figure it out ;)
In linux, using bash, what's the easiest way to find files that were modified more than an hour ago but less than 3 days ago?
Surely, there's got to be an easy way to do this. I keep searching and can't find an easy solution.
Find has -mtime and -mmin:
find . -mtime +3 -mmin -60
From the find manual:
Numeric arguments can be specified as:
+n for greater than n
-n for less than n
n for exactly n
This should suffice: find . -mtime -3 -mmin +60
I just tried it:
find ./ -mtime -3 -mmin +60 -exec ls -lhrt {} \; | awk '{print $5" "$6" "$7" "$8}'
How can I find files in Linux that were not accessed for X days?
I found that command, but it will show files that were viewed for the last x days:
$ find /home/you -iname "*.pdf" -atime -60 -type -f
Use -atime +60 to see files that have not been accessed within the last 60 days:
find /home/you -iname "*.pdf" -atime +60 -type f
How do I find all the files that were create only today and not in 24 hour period in unix/linux
On my Fedora 10 system, with findutils-4.4.0-1.fc10.i386:
find <path> -daystart -ctime 0 -print
The -daystart flag tells it to calculate from the start of today instead of from 24 hours ago.
Note however that this will actually list files created or modified in the last day. find has no options that look at the true creation date of the file.
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print
To find all files that are modified today only (since start of day only, i.e. 12 am), in current directory and its sub-directories:
touch -t `date +%m%d0000` /tmp/$$
find . -type f -newer /tmp/$$
rm /tmp/$$
Source
I use this with some frequency:
$ ls -altrh --time-style=+%D | grep $(date +%D)
After going through many posts I found the best one that really works
find $file_path -type f -name "*.txt" -mtime -1 -printf "%f\n"
This prints only the file name like
abc.txt not the /path/tofolder/abc.txt
Also also play around or customize with -mtime -1
This worked for me. Lists the files created on May 30 in the current directory.
ls -lt | grep 'May 30'
Use ls or find to have all the files that were created today.
Using ls : ls -ltr | grep "$(date '+%b %e')"
Using find : cd $YOUR_DIRECTORY; find . -ls 2>/dev/null| grep "$(date '+%b %e')"
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -execdir basename '{}' ';' | grep `date +'%Y%m%d'`
You can use find and ls to accomplish with this:
find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | egrep "Aug 26";
It will find all files in this directory, display useful informations (-l) and filter the lines with some date you want... It may be a little bit slow, but still useful in some cases.
Just keep in mind there are 2 spaces between Aug and 26. Other wise your find command will not work.
find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | egrep "Aug 26";
If you're did something like accidentally rsync'd to the wrong directory, the above suggestions work to find new files, but for me, the easiest was connecting with an SFTP client like Transmit then ordering by date and deleting.
To get file before 24 hours execute below command:
find . -type f -mtime 1 -exec ls -l {} \;
To get files created today execute below command:
find . -type f -mtime -1 -exec ls -l {} \;
To Get files created before n days before, where +2 is before 2 days files in below command:
find . -type f -mtime +2 -exec ls -l {} \;