UNIX script - find files - show dates

Question

I am running the following command:

find . -atime -30

However in the output, I would like it to display the time stamp of access time. Also would like it to show the user that accessed the file if at all possible.

Can you help?

Thanks.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '13 at 10:11

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Use the printf option of find:

find . -atime -30 -printf '%u %Ac %p\n'

Take a look at man find for the different printf formatting options.

answered Feb 22 '13 at 10:11

dogbane

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The version of unix I am using doesn't like printf, tried with -print0 but then it complained about '%u %Ac %p\n'. – Thomas Pollock Feb 22 '13 at 10:38

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '13 at 10:08

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find . -atime -30 -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lud

You can't determine who accessed the file, this information is not generally recorded.

Bear in mind that atime is not always updated (depends on the file system mount options).

If you want to restrict the find to just files, then you can do:

find . -atime -30 -a -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lud

answered Feb 22 '13 at 10:08

Anya Shenanigans

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This does show a result but it is a lot different from the results I get when I type in my original command. – Thomas Pollock Feb 22 '13 at 11:00

vipw · Answer 3 · 2013-02-22T14:10:11.410

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Last access doesn't log the user that accessed the file.

find . -atime -30 -exec stat {} +

will give you all the info you can get.

If you don't have GNU find or stat, try what Petesh suggests.

edited Feb 22 '13 at 14:10

answered Feb 22 '13 at 10:08

vipw

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I don't know what version of UNIX you are using. Do you at least have GNU find? – vipw Feb 22 '13 at 11:01
What I do know is that we are using HP UX. – Thomas Pollock Feb 22 '13 at 11:42
So you're probably stuck using xargs and ls – vipw Feb 22 '13 at 13:23
Yea, and for some reason it still returns the full directory. – Thomas Pollock Feb 22 '13 at 13:36
did you use -type f like Petesh suggested. Probably you end up running ls on directories (which will list all the files within it). – vipw Feb 22 '13 at 14:12

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