script to search new files in subdirectories
 

Hi,

Greetings!!

I am newbie and started writing scripts few months back. I want to write a script to find the files and directories which were newly added to the existing directory structure.

My present directory structure is

dir1 has dir2,dir3,dir4 subdirectories and in ../dir1/dir2/ i have some more sub directories dir2.1 dir2.2

now I want the list files newly add anywhere in the directory structure.

Wishes,
KJ

Hi and welcome to LQ.

What do you mean "new"? New relative to what? You can easily identify files created/modified in the last N minutes using the find command (see find manual page to see all its flags, eg: -mtime or -mmin). Alternatively google search will return a lot of results.

HTH

As above. In addition if you wanted to compare the current contents to some previous point in time, you'd probably have to store the names and date in a log file of some kind to compare against.

Hi,

Greetings!!

Thanks sycamorex and David the H for the suggestion.

I have solved the issue using find command with -mtime option.

Best Regards,
KJ.