[SOLVED] Looking for best way to calculate group of file by specific date

mosiac · 07-15-2013, 10:35 AM

So I'm trying to find out how many files have a date say "Jul 15" and then get the total amount of space they take up.

Currently I'm using something along the lines of

Code:

find /directory -type f -name "*.log*" -cmin -610 2> /dev/null | xargs du -b -h 2>/dev/null | awk '{total += $1; print $0} END{print total}'

But I really don't like having to use ctime and I'm wondering if there is a better way.

Thanks

druuna · 07-15-2013, 11:07 AM

Not sure this is better, I did change a few things though:

Code:

touch --date="2013-07-15 00:00:00" /tmp/token1
touch --date="2013-07-15 23:59:59" /tmp/token2
find /dirX -type f -newer /tmp/token1 -not -newer /tmp/token2 -exec stat -c%s {} \; | awk '{total += $1;print}END{print total}'

Main difference: The above uses 2 token files with a more precise date/time stamp, which are used by finds -newer option.

mosiac · 07-15-2013, 12:52 PM

That's working perfectly. Thanks

druuna · 07-15-2013, 01:21 PM

You're welcome

BTW: Can you put up the [SOLVED] tag.