From: cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 13:58:27 EDT
Dave,
You could do a
find . -type f -mtime +SOME_NUMBER -ls
and then play with that SOME_NUMBER of days until you get a manageable list of the oldest files.
Or
You could make a for loop like this
for dir in `find . -type d -print`
do
ls -lart $DIR | egrep -v "^total|\.|\.\." | head -1
done
And you could echo the $DIR or append it to the file name.
Could go a step further and write to a file and then sort the results of the oldest file per subdir to get the oldest file of them
all.
Of course there are better/cleaner ways to skin this cat.
Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
DSE/TCO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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Both of these suggestions only sort, by age, at the directory-level. This file-system has ~2000 directories in it. I need to
find the oldest file in the entire file-system.
David
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Renison, Rick
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: oldest file in a filesystem
ls -Rrlt /fs | head
works really fast.
Rick Renison, EDS Canada, DuSC, Oshawa, Ontario
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Taylor, David
Sent: April 29, 2004 9:53 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: oldest file in a filesystem
Hi *
I am trying to trouble-shoot a problem with cache-corruption on an imaging system. It would be very helpful if I could
locate the oldest file (modified or created) in that cache. Does anyone know of a script that would do this? The cache
is about 35GB in size and the average file size is ~ 100K.
The corruption is definitely application-related. We would just like to pinpoint the point in time that it began in order
to discover the root cause.
TIA
David Taylor
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