Help with du script

aayoub · 04-15-2009, 11:36 AM

I am trying to get a list of ftp users' folders and full date "mm-dd-yyyy" when they were changed.
I can get the list and of folders and their sizes largest first by using du commnad
du --max-depth=1 /ftproot/ftpusers | sort -n -r | more

2365580 /ftproot/ftpusers/user1
1330908 /ftproot/ftpusers/user2
826072 /ftproot/ftpusers/user3
549428 /ftproot/ftpusers/user4
285800 /ftproot/ftpusers/user5

Can I an add another switch to get the date as well, then seperate the list to active and inactive users. The inactive should contain any user that have not uploaded any files within the last 60 days (2 months.

Thank you in advance.

tredegar · 04-15-2009, 11:50 AM

Please see man find
Pay particular attention to the -mtime n option:

Code:

−mtime n
       File’s data was last modiﬁed n*24 hours ago. See the comments for −atime to understand how
       rounding affects the interpretation of ﬁle modiﬁcation times.

Welcome to LQ!

aayoub · 04-15-2009, 12:25 PM

Thank you tredegar! can you provide an example?

tredegar · 04-15-2009, 12:58 PM

Quote:

can you provide an example?

Well. No I can not (or rather I will not).

The solution is pretty simple - Educate yourself about linux commands and exactly how they work. Search, experiment, test and learn. You have already had a very big hint in my post #2.

I could give you the answer in one line, but then you would not have learnt anything, so you'll soon be back here with "Help me with ....", without you having done any work at all. This is just a lazy attitude, which isn't encouraged on these forums.

So: Get busy. Learn how linux commands work. Read the man pages. Test them out.

Once you can show you have tried to help yourself, you'll find many people here are happy to help you further. But YOU need to make a start for YOURSELF.

Is this "homework"?