find one day older files

kirukan · 05-31-2011, 06:06 AM

I used following command to sort one day older log files

Quote:

find /opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/ -name "mtsDB.log*" -mtime +1 -print

following are log files which are existing, I have to delete one day older files from this location but when use above mentioned command it won't print one day older files, as i understand "-mtime" modified time, "+1" means one day older. am i correct?

Code:

-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:11 mtsDB.log126985
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:17 mtsDB.log126986
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:23 mtsDB.log126987
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:29 mtsDB.log126988
...
...
...
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 31 18:41 mtsDB.log127151
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 31 18:47 mtsDB.log127152
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 31 18:53 mtsDB.log127153
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      152846336 May 31 18:57 mtsDB.log127154

How can i print one day older logfiles?

brownie_cookie · 05-31-2011, 06:16 AM

normally it should work!
i can't seem to find a problem here, because i use the same sort of code (for other purposes) and it works fine by me?!

Adol · 05-31-2011, 08:07 AM

here is a command that I use:

Code:

find /home/petreuss/test/ -iname "*" -mtime -30 -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} cp -v {} /home/petreuss/test2/

The main difference of the find command is that I use

Code:

-iname

you use

Code:

-name

Not sure but could that be the problem?

you can change the xargs options to copy, remove, move or any other command. Mine is set to copy.

Here is how mtime works:

Code:

find . -mtime 0 # find files modified between now and 1 day ago
# (i.e., within the past 24 hours)
find . -mtime -1 # find files modified less than 1 day ago
# (i.e., within the past 24 hours, as before)
find . -mtime 1 # find files modified between 24 and 48 hours ago
find . -mtime +1 # find files modified more than 48 hours ago

find . -mmin +5 -mmin -10 # find files modified between
# 6 and 9 minutes ago

are you getting an error message or is it just not finding the correct files?

kirukan · 05-31-2011, 10:37 PM

#ls -l

Code:

-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:11 mtsDB.log126985
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:17 mtsDB.log126986
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:23 mtsDB.log126987
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:29 mtsDB.log126988
...
...
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 31 11:13 mtsDB.log127082
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 31 11:20 mtsDB.log127083
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 31 11:27 mtsDB.log127084
....
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 Jun  1 11:13 mtsDB.log127233
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 Jun  1 11:20 mtsDB.log127234
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      31539200 Jun  1 11:21 mtsDB.log127235

find /opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/ -name "mtsDB.log*" -mtime +0 -print

Code:

/opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/mtsDB.log126987
/opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/mtsDB.log126988
/opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/mtsDB.log126989
...
....
/opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/mtsDB.log127082
/opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/mtsDB.log127083

command executed time

Code:

Wed Jun  1 11:21:33 SGT 2011

Exactly "-mtime +0" retrieve 24hours older files but it skips following two files

Code:

-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:11 mtsDB.log126985
-rw-rw-rw-   1 ablddb   dba      268435456 May 30 17:17 mtsDB.log126986

Any guess?