Hello, I need some help from you guys ;] Can someone help me write a bash scrip? Basically I need to write a script, where you input a date and the script shows files older then the inputed date. Can someone help me with this ? :]

Sounds like homework.

What, exactly, are you stuck on? What have you written so far? What isn't working in the script you've written so far?

gues on evrything ;] Should I use DATE or something else for the input and how to serch for a files date, use find or smth else ? ;/

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ripting_guide/

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Thank you for replie dive, but could you be more specific ? I dont have weary much time to study all the content in thouse links ;]

Type 'man find' in a console.

Welcome to LQ!!!

Could you be more courteous to the people around. We guys are here to help not to spoonfeed. If you are not willing to devote your time to figure out how you can learn then it will not going to work.

Anyways back to your query. As I can understand you want to find out the files which are older than X days.

Here are some tips:

1. find command is capable of finding the files older than X days. Following is the syntax: find / -type f -mtime +X . Where X will be the number of days.

2. You can use read command in your script to get the user input.

3. Basically what you are looking for is to find the difference between the date entered and today's date and then use as an input for -mtime +X

4. Remember you have to keep a track of date, month and year as well. What I mean to say that year changes after every 365 or 366 days so keep that in consideration.

Now, it is upto you how you can figure out how you could do that. Try to create a script and get back to us if you have any query.


Hint: You can get the today's date in variable using the following: TODAY=$(date '%Y%m%d')"