Files modified after a given date

Files modified after a given date

[Vincent Lefevre]

Is there a way to get the files modified after a given date (as a
glob qualifier), the date being given as the number of seconds since
the origin?

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Re: Files modified after a given date

[Bruce Stephens]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:

> Is there a way to get the files modified after a given date (as a
> glob qualifier), the date being given as the number of seconds since
> the origin?

Assuming I'm understanding the question correctly, no.  You can (in
3.1.6, anyway), get files modified since some time relative to the
current time:

        *.c(ms-30)

expands to C files modified in the last 30 seconds, for example.

This is described towards the end of zshexpn(1).

Re: Files modified after a given date

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 17:44:45 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Assuming I'm understanding the question correctly, no.  You can (in
> 3.1.6, anyway), get files modified since some time relative to the
> current time:
> 
>         *.c(ms-30)
> 
> expands to C files modified in the last 30 seconds, for example.

But I don't want it to be relative to the current time.

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Re: Files modified after a given date

[Bruce Stephens]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 17:44:45 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > Assuming I'm understanding the question correctly, no.  You can (in
> > 3.1.6, anyway), get files modified since some time relative to the
> > current time:
> > 
> >         *.c(ms-30)
> > 
> > expands to C files modified in the last 30 seconds, for example.
> 
> But I don't want it to be relative to the current time.

In which case, I don't think there's a builtin glob way of doing it.
You could write a function using the stat module, but I don't think we
have user-defined glob patterns yet?

        zmodload stat; builtin stat -H foo .zshrc; echo $foo[mtime]

prints 934038501, for me.

Re: Files modified after a given date

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 19:55:27 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> In which case, I don't think there's a builtin glob way of doing it.
> You could write a function using the stat module, but I don't think we
> have user-defined glob patterns yet?

It would be a good idea.

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Re: Files modified after a given date

[Gabor]

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:43:47PM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
# On Aug 27,  5:51pm, Gabor wrote:
# > Subject: Re: Files modified after a given date
# > === gabor $ builtin stat -H foo .zshrc
# > zsh: attempt to set slice of associative array
# 
# That's extremely strange.  What do you get in $foo if you use -A instead
# of -H ?  Are you sure you aren't loading a stat module that's from a
# different version/build of zsh?

Well, I figured it out.  I believe this to be a bug, though you
decide.  I always set ksharrays since I like 0 based indexing and use
ksh for scripting at work.  With ksharrays unset, it works.

=== gabor $ unsetopt ksharrays
=== gabor $ stat -H foo .
=== gabor $ print ${(kv)foo[@]}
blksize 8192 nlink 52 size 3072 rdev 533784 mode 16841 mtime 935797473
inode 127121 blocks 6 device 196614 atime 935797353 uid 1000 link
ctime 935797473 gid 1000
=== gabor $ setopt ksharrays
=== gabor $ stat -H foo .
zsh: attempt to set slice of associative array
zsh: exit 1
=== gabor $

Re: Files modified after a given date

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 27,  5:51pm, Gabor wrote:
> Subject: Re: Files modified after a given date
> === gabor $ builtin stat -H foo .zshrc
> zsh: attempt to set slice of associative array

That's extremely strange.  What do you get in $foo if you use -A instead
of -H ?  Are you sure you aren't loading a stat module that's from a
different version/build of zsh?

Re: Files modified after a given date

[Bruce Stephens]

Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com> writes:

> This is what I get
> 
> === gabor $ builtin stat -H foo .zshrc
> zsh: attempt to set slice of associative array
> zsh: exit 1
> === gabor $ where stat
> stat: shell built-in command

Oh dear.  I'm fairly sure it worked in 3.1.6, and 3.1.6-pws-1 is what
I'm using now.  I'm guessing that means it will work in 3.2 (or
whatever the next non-beta release is called).  Clearly stat shouldn't
give the error message you're getting---that's just silly.

Re: Files modified after a given date

[Gabor]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:09:33AM +0200, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
# 
# Bruce Stephens wrote:
# 
# > Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:
# > 
# > > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 17:44:45 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
# > > > Assuming I'm understanding the question correctly, no.  You can (in
# > > > 3.1.6, anyway), get files modified since some time relative to the
# > > > current time:
# > > > 
# > > >         *.c(ms-30)
# > > > 
# > > > expands to C files modified in the last 30 seconds, for example.
# > > 
# > > But I don't want it to be relative to the current time.
# > 
# > In which case, I don't think there's a builtin glob way of doing it.
# > You could write a function using the stat module, but I don't think we
# > have user-defined glob patterns yet?
# > 
# >         zmodload stat; builtin stat -H foo .zshrc; echo $foo[mtime]
# > 
# > prints 934038501, for me.

This is what I get

=== gabor $ builtin stat -H foo .zshrc
zsh: attempt to set slice of associative array
zsh: exit 1
=== gabor $ where stat
stat: shell built-in command


# I've been wishing for this since I added the granularity modifiers for 
# the a/m/c glob qualifiers. The problem is that we would need to be
# able to parse date/time strings, of course, which isn't trivial...
# 
# Bye
#  Sven
# 
# 
# --
# Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de

Re: Files modified after a given date

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Bruce Stephens wrote:

> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 17:44:45 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > > Assuming I'm understanding the question correctly, no.  You can (in
> > > 3.1.6, anyway), get files modified since some time relative to the
> > > current time:
> > > 
> > >         *.c(ms-30)
> > > 
> > > expands to C files modified in the last 30 seconds, for example.
> > 
> > But I don't want it to be relative to the current time.
> 
> In which case, I don't think there's a builtin glob way of doing it.
> You could write a function using the stat module, but I don't think we
> have user-defined glob patterns yet?
> 
>         zmodload stat; builtin stat -H foo .zshrc; echo $foo[mtime]
> 
> prints 934038501, for me.

I've been wishing for this since I added the granularity modifiers for 
the a/m/c glob qualifiers. The problem is that we would need to be
able to parse date/time strings, of course, which isn't trivial...

Bye
 Sven


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