I am new to the UNIX operating system, and have a small task to be accomplished. Every thursday I need to check a certain directory (/etc/custom/logs/ob) and if any files have been added/modified in the past 10 days an email has be sent to me with the new/modified files. I understand that a script has be written along with a cron job which will trigger the script at weekly intervals. But thats where my knowledge ends. Please guide me further. Thanks, Collis

OK...of course you know that in cron you'll have to set the verbage to something like this: 0 0 * * * 4 /pathtoshellscript and of course give it full permissions so that it's executable. Now, for the meat of your question. You'll have to write a script that sounds kinda like this.... $DAYS='cut-c1-2' $PASTENDAYS='date | cut -c(the numbers of the characters where the day is in the string)' (or something to that effect with some arithmetic subtracting 10 days) cd /etc/custom/logs/ob l | cut -c(the number of the characters which contain the "date" section AND the "filename" section then...)>>tmp1 for i in 'cat tmp1' if $DAYS => $PASTENDAYS then cat $i >>tmp2 else next i for a in 'cat tmp2' echo $a >>finalfile.txt cat $a >>finalfile.txt next a ---then mail finalfile.txt to yourself--- I'm a little rusty but i hope that helps

The script you need should use the find command. Use the man pages for find and look at -mtime option. The script posted above will not work. Cutting out the days will not provide an allowance for a change in months. find /dirname -mtime -10 -print Jerry

Yep...... Jerry's right. I emailed you some corrections. kris......

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