Need a bash script

subnet_rx · 01-25-2007, 03:05 PM

I would like to get all files modified within the last 3 days and change the owner:group permissions on these files. How can I do that in bash?

acid_kewpie · 01-25-2007, 03:20 PM

well it'd be a "find" one liner really. check the -mtime option to locate files on modified time stamps, and just use -exec to sne dthose results to the command of choice, chown in this case.

colucix · 01-25-2007, 03:51 PM

With the option -mtime, the find command looks for the files modified more than n days ago. To retrieve the files modified within the last three days I would use the -newer option as in the following code (but probably there is a better way to do this)

Code:

touch -t `date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S -d "3 day ago"` /tmp/testfile && find . -newer /tmp/testfile -exec chown user:group {} \; && rm /tmp/testfile

The -newer option ensures to retrieve the files more recent than a file modified three days ago.

subnet_rx · 01-25-2007, 07:05 PM

Thanks colucix. I'm going to give that a try.