Shell Script to check filesize

baddah · 08-20-2007, 07:15 AM

Hi,

I want to write a simple shell script that will run through some folders and check for all files that is either bigger than a specified size or contains more than a certain amount of lines and then send me a email to let me know of those files.

The emailing,etc is fine,i'm just looking for the best way to traverse through the folder(maybe only look at certain files according to a timestamp),and check the size,amount of lines.

What's the best linux command to use for something like that?

Thanks

Hko · 08-20-2007, 07:58 AM

To find all files in /dir/path:

Code:

find /path/t/dir -type f

Get size of a file:

Code:

stat -c%s /path/to/file

Count number of lines in a file:

Code:

wc -l /path/to/file