How to write a bash script based on the modified of the files?
This is using SuSE Linux Enterprise 12.3. We are thinking of writing a bash script to find out the whether a group of files with *.rf were updated for the past 4 hours. We wanted to ensure that at least 1 or more of these *.rf files in /usr6/MAPS4/ folder. We are thinking of checking based on the "Modified date" of the file. If at least 1 *.rf file was updated for the past 4 hours, that means thing is working fine. Else, if none were updated, an alert will be triggered.
How to write this bash script? Please show with example.
Thanks in advance.
How to write this bash script? Please show with example.
Thanks in advance.
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You still need to replace ALERT with your alerting code...
#!/bin/bash
COUNTFILES=$( find /usr6/MAPS4/ -name '*.rf' -mmin 240 | wc -l )
if [ "$COUNTFILES" ne "0" ] ; then ALERT.... fi
Likely noci's code will be best.
Another approach... If you have many files (1,000,000) or are trying to avoid any additional disk I/O on a busy system, use inotifywait.
Another approach... If you have many files (1,000,000) or are trying to avoid any additional disk I/O on a busy system, use inotifywait.
inotifywait -mr --timefmt '%Y-%m-%d-%T' --format '%T %w%f %e' /var/log | while read time file event ; do
# code here to process data based on time + file + event
echo "$time $file $event"
done
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