How do I search for files in the past?

RobHill · 05-21-2007, 10:05 AM

I am trying to write a shell script and in the script I have to look for an id in a file and look for that id in the files for the past 7 days. The file is gzipped after 24 hours. Any suggestion?

0.o · 05-21-2007, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RobHill

I am trying to write a shell script and in the script I have to look for an id in a file and look for that id in the files for the past 7 days. The file is gzipped after 24 hours. Any suggestion?

Do you think you could clarify what you are looking for? Perhaps even show the data that you need to find in the files?

ghostdog74 · 05-21-2007, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by RobHill

Any suggestion?

read up on sed/awk/grep/gzip/tar and the find command. then try to write it. if you hit problems, come here again. just some examples to get you started,

Code:

# grep 'id' file #search for the id in file
# awk '/id/{print}' file

to unzip a file

Code:

# gzip -d file.gz
# tar zxvf file.tar.gz #if its also tarred.

to find txt files more than 7 days

Code:

find /path -type f -name "*txt" -mtime +7 -print