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<17de4b21-91e5-4751-b4ec-60950a5b977b@m71g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
raghav wrote:

> hi guys ,
>
> I need to develop a script to check for all files in a directory that
> are older than X hours ,
> I have tried with atime ,mtime & some of the switches using the ls
> command .
> please suggest me some tips .
>
> thanks your help is appreciated .

Use GNU find with the -mmin option:

find -type f -mmin +

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raghav wrote:
>
> I need to develop a script to check for all files in a directory that
> are older than X hours ,
> I have tried with atime ,mtime *& some of the switches using the ls
> command .

I looked at "touch -t" on the first system I accessed (HPUX
today) and it is able to create a file with an mtime specified
to the nearest second.

Get the current time into a variable. Do some time arithmatic
and make a string that has the time X hours ago to the
nearest second. "touch -t $thentime /tmp/anchor.$$" to have
an anchor file in place. Then do

find $yourdir -type f -older /tmp/anchor.$$ -print | your_processing

End with rm /tmp/anchor.$$ to clean up.