Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Path: utzoo!telly!robohack!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: TIMESTAMP: a useful file filter by last modified time
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 90 19:24:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.192429.16163@druid.uucp>
References: <926@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <4160@taux01.nsc.com>

In various articles discussing TIMESTAMP
> [...]

I needed something to operate on files based on the time stamp with better
granularity than find as well.  My approach was to write a program which
simply lists the files on the command line with their age in seconds.  I
can then use standard shell tools to manipulate them.  For example, the
following code lets me delay batching ihave/sendme in C News by 24 hours:

if [ -r $NEWSARTS/holding/* ]
then
	for i in `age $NEWSARTS/holding/* | awk '{if ($2 >86400) print $1}'`
	do
		cat $i | rnews && rm -f $i
	done
fi

I never posted the code because it is so trivial but if any one wants it
let me know.  I will email or post depending on the response.

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