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Solaris 10 modified time
In Solaris 8, when we access the file, the access time changes but modified time remains same. But in Solaris 10, we see that both access and modified time changes when accessing the file. We checked ...
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Modification and Access time of a file?
Is it possible to change the file modification time without changing the file acess time?
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1answer
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rename files maching specific mtime value within directory
I use simple set of shell commands to in order to create mysqldumps daily. The script is called by cron daemon. It looks like:
presentdate="`date +%d-%m-%Y_%H:%M.%S`"
basedir="/var/db_my_backup"
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Remove oldest folders + files (50GB) from a folder when share/HD reaches 95% full capacity
I have a big share (~5TB) that is getting full.
Now I want to make a script that deletes data from 2 specified folders. But this need to be the oldest files/folders and it need to stop when ~50GB has ...
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2answers
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How do I mass-convert the “last modified” dates in a particular directory?
For example, say, I know that my time-offsets are off by several hours (perhaps because my system clock was a few hours ahead at a certain time). In that case, how would I mass-change the "last ...
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2answers
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find command for the newest 500 files in a directory tree and also be POSIX compliant
I am looking for a single line shell script or unix command to find the newest 500 files in a directory. Major constraints are it should be POSIX complaint and the directory can have tons of files.
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1answer
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See if file has been copied to USB
Is there a way to see if a file has been copied to an USB drive?
(Ex: I have the file secret.db and I suppose that my friend has copied it into his USB drive. With stat $filename I cannot see the ...
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3answers
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How can I change 'change' date of file?
How can I change 'change' date?
$ touch -t 9901010000 test;stat test
File: `test'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
Device: fe01h/65025d Inode: 11279017 ...
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7answers
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Bash, remove oldest files
I`m trying to delete old files from directory and leave only 3 newest files.
cd /home/user1/test
while [ `ls -lAR | grep ^- | wc -l` < 3 ] ; do
rm `ls -t1 /home/user/test | tail -1`
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4answers
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How can I do a “copy if changed” operation?
I would like to copy a set of files from directory A to directory B, with the caveat that if a file in directory A is identical to a file in directory B, that file should not be copied (and thus its ...
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3answers
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How to list files that were changed in a certain range of time?
How can I list recursively all files that were changed between 22.12.2011 and 24.12.2011?
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3answers
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How to delete the oldest directory in a given directory? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Shell script for moving oldest files?
I have a backup directory that stores x other directories that require backuping.
I need something that will run before another ...
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4answers
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Access the last file (alphabetically) in a directory
I'm trying to open a file with vim from the command line, the file is in a directory filled with automatically generated files that are prepended with a time stamp. Since I don't know the time stamps ...
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3answers
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Get file created/creation time? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I do a ls and then sort the results by date created?
Is there a command in Linux which displays when the file was created ? I see that ls -l gives the last ...
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6answers
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Shell script for moving oldest files?
How do I write a script for moving just the 20 oldest files from one folder to another? Is there a way to grab the oldest files in a folder?
