Need help with bash, for each directory in ...

xrz

How can i only "for each dir" which has date of modify or date of creation dir TODAY?

!/bin/bash

for dir in /home/blubbluh/*
do
if [ -d "${dir}" ]; then
somecommandblahbleh
done

THX!

Falzo

man find

PS: are you even aware under what circumstances a directory mtime or ctime is updated and when not?

xrz

tried (http://stackoverflow.com/a/552750) -120 minutes aka 2 hours but not works .. still getting all dirs

!/bin/bash

for dir in /home/blubbluh/*
do
if [ -d "${dir}" ]; then
if test find "${dir}" -mmin -120
then
somecommandblahbleh
fi
fi
done

Falzo

sorry to say, but you need to learn/read/try more by yourself ;-) so I wont deliver complete solutions anymore ^^

as a hint: you can achieve what you want to do with a single find command (and get rid of that whole for do crap).

some more hints:

find -type d

this simply will find all directories beneath the given path

find -cmin -120

this will give back only files/dirs with a change time within the last 120 minutes. read about differences between mmin and cmin (or mtime/ctime)... especially when this will happen to be updated on a dir. also mind the difference of using + or - modifier for the time given.

find -exec somecommand {} \;

this will execute a specified command on every single result of the search

after that combine this three stepwise into one single command. maybe use a non modifying command first as a dryrun method. append something like -print to get more output ;-)

rincewind

Should have deferred to @Falzo but couldnt help it

find /home/blahblah -type d -and \( -daystart -ctime 0 -or -mtime 0 \) -exec blehblehbleh \;