I have a directory called /home/mydir/test
A file will be sent from some other team which lands in this directory. How to find what is the time the file came to this particular directory? ( I need both time in time stamp format and normal hh:mm:ss format too ) I have to move the files to directory which is here for more than 5 hours. How to fetch those files?
You can use stat -c %w filename, it will provide the date of birth in human readable way, and -C will provide in unix timestamp.
Time of birth is not supported on every filesystem; use stat -c %z, i.e. time of last change, in those cases.
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I have modified the question , How to get the files which are there in this folder for more than 5 hours – VRVigneshwara Sep 5 '15 at 4:46
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How can I compare with today's date with the value i get from stat -c %z filename and get the difference in a variable – VRVigneshwara Sep 6 '15 at 14:37
stat without options allows you to see all timestamps (birth,access,modify,change)
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i think it is displayed with debug flag on stat: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50177/birth-is-empty-on-ext4 – Jelmer de Reus Sep 5 '15 at 9:58
For the last part of your question: Use find to find all files older than 5 * 60 minutes (-cmin tests for change time in minutes, +300 means more than 300); {} is replaced with the filename:
find in_dir -cmin +300 -type f -exec mv {} out_dir \;
Update: added -type f to not move in_dir itself to out_dir.
ls -l fileis not enough; ii) if that is not enough, explain how the file is being copied and iii) the filesystem you are using. – terdon♦ Sep 4 '15 at 12:02inotifywaitfor one). – roaima Sep 4 '15 at 20:13