Bdtyktl

So, I want to display (via ls for example) all files, which were changed in the last seven days. If I'm in my docroot-folder, it should be able to look "deeper".

For example:

File        Last changed

docroot

|- myfile1  30.11.2015

|- myfile2  10.11.2015

|- MySub

   |-sub1   30.11.2015

   |-sub2   10.11.2015

So, the ls (or whatever fits) should output myfile1 and (if possible)
MySub/sub1.

Is this doable with one command?

Of course. From the directory you are in do:

find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec ls -l {} ; 

Add a redirection to it (aka > results.txt to store them into that file).

• 
  type f does only files and not directories


• 
  mtime -7 does 7 days ago up to now (+7 would be 'older than 7 days')


• and it then feeds it to ls to show a long list

You can play with the ls -l part too:

find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec ls -Rl --time-style=long-iso {} ; 

find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec ls -R  --time-style=long-iso {} ; 

will show a tree like method with directories in between the files in long list (1) or short list (2).

With zsh:

ls -l **/*(.m-7)

• **/* will look for files recursively starting from current directory




• (.m-7) is glob qualifier where . indicates regular file, m-7 indicates files that were modified within last 7 days

Not exactly what was asked for... but much easier to remember...

ls -alRt docroot

or

ls -alRt /path/to/top/level/directory

7 days that's 60 seconds*60minutes*24hours*7days
= 604800 seconds

Find out current date in seconds (Unix epoch time):

$ date +%s

1448876323

Subtract the 7 days in seconds:

expr $(date +%s) - 604800

1448271548

Now take stat command and print stats for all files in format "name + time in seconds" and use awk to crop off those files whose modification time is greater that that date we calculated

$ stat --printf="%n %Yn" $HOME/* | awk '$2 > 1448271265 {print $0}'

/home/xieerqi/1448428697574.png 1448429613

/home/xieerqi/1448763343273.png 1448763478

/home/xieerqi/1510DRIVE 1448352453

/home/xieerqi/addRemoveDistribution 1448666843

/home/xieerqi/add-update.awk 1448716356

/home/xieerqi/add-update.sh 1448625092

Particularly of interest are last 3 files, because I know I was working them on less that 7 days ago. Thus I know it works

The following command works a dream on Mac OSX - maybe also on ubuntu …

find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec stat -lt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" {} ; | cut -d  -f6- | sort -r

This finds files in the current directory tree which have been modified in the last 7 days, outputs the modification date + time and path, sorted newest first.

Example output:

2018-02-21 22:06:30 ./fmxmlsnippet.xml

2018-02-19 12:56:01 ./diff.html

2018-02-19 12:44:37 ./temp/iDDR/XMSC_fmxmlsnippet.xml

2018-02-18 22:04:05 ./temp/iDDR/XMFD_fmxmlsnippet.xml

2018-02-15 10:18:27 ./xml/iDDR/XML2_fmxmlsnippet.xml

2018-02-15 10:13:29 ./xsl/fmxmlsnippet/XML2_fmCM_AnalyseLayout.xsl

2018-02-15 10:11:36 ./xsl/.DS_Store

2018-02-15 10:10:51 ./xsl/_inc/inc.XML2_fmCM_ReportReferencesToExternalFiles.xsl

2018-02-15 10:10:09 ./xsl/_inc/.DS_Store

2018-02-15 10:07:35 ./xsl/fmxmlsnippet/XML2_fmCM_AnalyseLayout-NoAnchors.xsl

2018-02-15 10:07:35 ./xsl/_inc/inc.XML2_fmCM_AnalyseLayout.xsl

I'd be grateful of any feedback from ubuntu users.