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Find the age of the oldest file in one line or return zero


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I want to find the age of the oldest file in a certain directory or return 0 if there aren't any files in this directory. I also need a one-line command doing it. So far this is my command for finding the age in seconds of the oldest file in the directory:



expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))


The problem is that if there are no files it is returning the following error:



$ expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))
stat: cannot stat ‘0’: No such file or directory
-bash: 1554373460 - : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "- ")


So in this case I want the command to return just 0 and to suppress the error printout.










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  • 2





    Out of curiosity, why does it have to be in one line? It's much less readable & maintainable that way.

    – Jeff Schaller
    Apr 4 at 10:30











  • I am passing this line to specialized software. Then according to the output of the command, I can trigger an alarm and if I make it on more than a single line, I need to write more complex logic. The idea is to check a specific directory where there should not be any files for more than 20 seconds, I want to trigger an alarm if the age of the oldest file is more than 30 seconds.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:39












  • also I would be very happy if you have any ideas, how I can simplify my command for finding the age of the oldest file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:41











  • ls -lt | tail -1 will give you the oldest file; you can parse out the date or go through the stat stuff without having to do a single line shell loop

    – mpez0
    Apr 4 at 20:06












  • @mpez0 this is exactly what I am doing, check my original post.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago

















4















I want to find the age of the oldest file in a certain directory or return 0 if there aren't any files in this directory. I also need a one-line command doing it. So far this is my command for finding the age in seconds of the oldest file in the directory:



expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))


The problem is that if there are no files it is returning the following error:



$ expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))
stat: cannot stat ‘0’: No such file or directory
-bash: 1554373460 - : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "- ")


So in this case I want the command to return just 0 and to suppress the error printout.










share|improve this question

















  • 2





    Out of curiosity, why does it have to be in one line? It's much less readable & maintainable that way.

    – Jeff Schaller
    Apr 4 at 10:30











  • I am passing this line to specialized software. Then according to the output of the command, I can trigger an alarm and if I make it on more than a single line, I need to write more complex logic. The idea is to check a specific directory where there should not be any files for more than 20 seconds, I want to trigger an alarm if the age of the oldest file is more than 30 seconds.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:39












  • also I would be very happy if you have any ideas, how I can simplify my command for finding the age of the oldest file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:41











  • ls -lt | tail -1 will give you the oldest file; you can parse out the date or go through the stat stuff without having to do a single line shell loop

    – mpez0
    Apr 4 at 20:06












  • @mpez0 this is exactly what I am doing, check my original post.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago













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4








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1






I want to find the age of the oldest file in a certain directory or return 0 if there aren't any files in this directory. I also need a one-line command doing it. So far this is my command for finding the age in seconds of the oldest file in the directory:



expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))


The problem is that if there are no files it is returning the following error:



$ expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))
stat: cannot stat ‘0’: No such file or directory
-bash: 1554373460 - : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "- ")


So in this case I want the command to return just 0 and to suppress the error printout.










share|improve this question














I want to find the age of the oldest file in a certain directory or return 0 if there aren't any files in this directory. I also need a one-line command doing it. So far this is my command for finding the age in seconds of the oldest file in the directory:



expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))


The problem is that if there are no files it is returning the following error:



$ expr $(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y $(ls -lt /path/to/dir/ | tail -1 | awk 'print $NF'))))
stat: cannot stat ‘0’: No such file or directory
-bash: 1554373460 - : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "- ")


So in this case I want the command to return just 0 and to suppress the error printout.







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  • 2





    Out of curiosity, why does it have to be in one line? It's much less readable & maintainable that way.

    – Jeff Schaller
    Apr 4 at 10:30











  • I am passing this line to specialized software. Then according to the output of the command, I can trigger an alarm and if I make it on more than a single line, I need to write more complex logic. The idea is to check a specific directory where there should not be any files for more than 20 seconds, I want to trigger an alarm if the age of the oldest file is more than 30 seconds.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:39












  • also I would be very happy if you have any ideas, how I can simplify my command for finding the age of the oldest file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:41











  • ls -lt | tail -1 will give you the oldest file; you can parse out the date or go through the stat stuff without having to do a single line shell loop

    – mpez0
    Apr 4 at 20:06












  • @mpez0 this is exactly what I am doing, check my original post.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago












  • 2





    Out of curiosity, why does it have to be in one line? It's much less readable & maintainable that way.

    – Jeff Schaller
    Apr 4 at 10:30











  • I am passing this line to specialized software. Then according to the output of the command, I can trigger an alarm and if I make it on more than a single line, I need to write more complex logic. The idea is to check a specific directory where there should not be any files for more than 20 seconds, I want to trigger an alarm if the age of the oldest file is more than 30 seconds.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:39












  • also I would be very happy if you have any ideas, how I can simplify my command for finding the age of the oldest file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:41











  • ls -lt | tail -1 will give you the oldest file; you can parse out the date or go through the stat stuff without having to do a single line shell loop

    – mpez0
    Apr 4 at 20:06












  • @mpez0 this is exactly what I am doing, check my original post.

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago







2




2





Out of curiosity, why does it have to be in one line? It's much less readable & maintainable that way.

– Jeff Schaller
Apr 4 at 10:30





Out of curiosity, why does it have to be in one line? It's much less readable & maintainable that way.

– Jeff Schaller
Apr 4 at 10:30













I am passing this line to specialized software. Then according to the output of the command, I can trigger an alarm and if I make it on more than a single line, I need to write more complex logic. The idea is to check a specific directory where there should not be any files for more than 20 seconds, I want to trigger an alarm if the age of the oldest file is more than 30 seconds.

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 10:39






I am passing this line to specialized software. Then according to the output of the command, I can trigger an alarm and if I make it on more than a single line, I need to write more complex logic. The idea is to check a specific directory where there should not be any files for more than 20 seconds, I want to trigger an alarm if the age of the oldest file is more than 30 seconds.

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 10:39














also I would be very happy if you have any ideas, how I can simplify my command for finding the age of the oldest file

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 10:41





also I would be very happy if you have any ideas, how I can simplify my command for finding the age of the oldest file

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 10:41













ls -lt | tail -1 will give you the oldest file; you can parse out the date or go through the stat stuff without having to do a single line shell loop

– mpez0
Apr 4 at 20:06






ls -lt | tail -1 will give you the oldest file; you can parse out the date or go through the stat stuff without having to do a single line shell loop

– mpez0
Apr 4 at 20:06














@mpez0 this is exactly what I am doing, check my original post.

– Georgе Stoyanov
2 days ago





@mpez0 this is exactly what I am doing, check my original post.

– Georgе Stoyanov
2 days ago










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If it must be one line:



stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null | awk -v d="$(date +%s)" 'BEGIN m=d $0 < m m = $0 END print d - m'



  • stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null print the timestamp of all files, ignoring errors (so no files results in no output)


  • With awk:




    • -v d="$(date +%s)" save the current timestamp in a variable d


    • BEGIN m=d initialize m to d


    • $0 < m m = $0 keeping track of the minimum in m


    • END print d - m print the difference.






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  • unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:55











  • @George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

    – muru
    Apr 4 at 11:03


















5














With zsh and perl:



perl -le 'print 0+-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])


(add the D glob qualifier if you also want to consider hidden files (but not . nor ..)).



Note that for symlinks, that considers the modification time of the file it resolves to. Remove the - in the glob qualifiers to consider the modification time of the symlink instead (and use (lstat$ARGV[0] && -M _) in perl to get the age of the symlink).



That gives the age in days. Multiply by 86400 to get a number of seconds:



perl -le 'print 86400*-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])



  • (N-Om[1]): glob qualifier:


    • N: turns on nullglob for that glob. So if there's no file in the directory, expands to nothing causing perl's -M to return undef.


    • -: causes next glob qualifiers to apply on the target of symlinks


    • Om: reverse (capital) order by modification time (so from oldest to newest like ls -rt)


    • [1]: select first matching file only



  • -M file: gets the age of the content of the file.


  • 0+ or 86400* force a conversion to number (for the undef case).





share|improve this answer

























  • I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 14:39







  • 2





    @GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Apr 4 at 15:37











  • I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago











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If it must be one line:



stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null | awk -v d="$(date +%s)" 'BEGIN m=d $0 < m m = $0 END print d - m'



  • stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null print the timestamp of all files, ignoring errors (so no files results in no output)


  • With awk:




    • -v d="$(date +%s)" save the current timestamp in a variable d


    • BEGIN m=d initialize m to d


    • $0 < m m = $0 keeping track of the minimum in m


    • END print d - m print the difference.






share|improve this answer

























  • unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:55











  • @George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

    – muru
    Apr 4 at 11:03















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If it must be one line:



stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null | awk -v d="$(date +%s)" 'BEGIN m=d $0 < m m = $0 END print d - m'



  • stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null print the timestamp of all files, ignoring errors (so no files results in no output)


  • With awk:




    • -v d="$(date +%s)" save the current timestamp in a variable d


    • BEGIN m=d initialize m to d


    • $0 < m m = $0 keeping track of the minimum in m


    • END print d - m print the difference.






share|improve this answer

























  • unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:55











  • @George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

    – muru
    Apr 4 at 11:03













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4








4







If it must be one line:



stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null | awk -v d="$(date +%s)" 'BEGIN m=d $0 < m m = $0 END print d - m'



  • stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null print the timestamp of all files, ignoring errors (so no files results in no output)


  • With awk:




    • -v d="$(date +%s)" save the current timestamp in a variable d


    • BEGIN m=d initialize m to d


    • $0 < m m = $0 keeping track of the minimum in m


    • END print d - m print the difference.






share|improve this answer















If it must be one line:



stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null | awk -v d="$(date +%s)" 'BEGIN m=d $0 < m m = $0 END print d - m'



  • stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null print the timestamp of all files, ignoring errors (so no files results in no output)


  • With awk:




    • -v d="$(date +%s)" save the current timestamp in a variable d


    • BEGIN m=d initialize m to d


    • $0 < m m = $0 keeping track of the minimum in m


    • END print d - m print the difference.







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  • unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:55











  • @George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

    – muru
    Apr 4 at 11:03

















  • unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 10:55











  • @George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

    – muru
    Apr 4 at 11:03
















unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 10:55





unfortunately, it does return 0 no matter if the directory is empty or it has more than one file

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 10:55













@George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

– muru
Apr 4 at 11:03





@George ah, oops, I inverted the check for min

– muru
Apr 4 at 11:03













5














With zsh and perl:



perl -le 'print 0+-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])


(add the D glob qualifier if you also want to consider hidden files (but not . nor ..)).



Note that for symlinks, that considers the modification time of the file it resolves to. Remove the - in the glob qualifiers to consider the modification time of the symlink instead (and use (lstat$ARGV[0] && -M _) in perl to get the age of the symlink).



That gives the age in days. Multiply by 86400 to get a number of seconds:



perl -le 'print 86400*-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])



  • (N-Om[1]): glob qualifier:


    • N: turns on nullglob for that glob. So if there's no file in the directory, expands to nothing causing perl's -M to return undef.


    • -: causes next glob qualifiers to apply on the target of symlinks


    • Om: reverse (capital) order by modification time (so from oldest to newest like ls -rt)


    • [1]: select first matching file only



  • -M file: gets the age of the content of the file.


  • 0+ or 86400* force a conversion to number (for the undef case).





share|improve this answer

























  • I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 14:39







  • 2





    @GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Apr 4 at 15:37











  • I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago















5














With zsh and perl:



perl -le 'print 0+-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])


(add the D glob qualifier if you also want to consider hidden files (but not . nor ..)).



Note that for symlinks, that considers the modification time of the file it resolves to. Remove the - in the glob qualifiers to consider the modification time of the symlink instead (and use (lstat$ARGV[0] && -M _) in perl to get the age of the symlink).



That gives the age in days. Multiply by 86400 to get a number of seconds:



perl -le 'print 86400*-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])



  • (N-Om[1]): glob qualifier:


    • N: turns on nullglob for that glob. So if there's no file in the directory, expands to nothing causing perl's -M to return undef.


    • -: causes next glob qualifiers to apply on the target of symlinks


    • Om: reverse (capital) order by modification time (so from oldest to newest like ls -rt)


    • [1]: select first matching file only



  • -M file: gets the age of the content of the file.


  • 0+ or 86400* force a conversion to number (for the undef case).





share|improve this answer

























  • I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 14:39







  • 2





    @GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Apr 4 at 15:37











  • I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago













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5








5







With zsh and perl:



perl -le 'print 0+-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])


(add the D glob qualifier if you also want to consider hidden files (but not . nor ..)).



Note that for symlinks, that considers the modification time of the file it resolves to. Remove the - in the glob qualifiers to consider the modification time of the symlink instead (and use (lstat$ARGV[0] && -M _) in perl to get the age of the symlink).



That gives the age in days. Multiply by 86400 to get a number of seconds:



perl -le 'print 86400*-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])



  • (N-Om[1]): glob qualifier:


    • N: turns on nullglob for that glob. So if there's no file in the directory, expands to nothing causing perl's -M to return undef.


    • -: causes next glob qualifiers to apply on the target of symlinks


    • Om: reverse (capital) order by modification time (so from oldest to newest like ls -rt)


    • [1]: select first matching file only



  • -M file: gets the age of the content of the file.


  • 0+ or 86400* force a conversion to number (for the undef case).





share|improve this answer















With zsh and perl:



perl -le 'print 0+-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])


(add the D glob qualifier if you also want to consider hidden files (but not . nor ..)).



Note that for symlinks, that considers the modification time of the file it resolves to. Remove the - in the glob qualifiers to consider the modification time of the symlink instead (and use (lstat$ARGV[0] && -M _) in perl to get the age of the symlink).



That gives the age in days. Multiply by 86400 to get a number of seconds:



perl -le 'print 86400*-M $ARGV[0]' /path/to/dir/*(N-Om[1])



  • (N-Om[1]): glob qualifier:


    • N: turns on nullglob for that glob. So if there's no file in the directory, expands to nothing causing perl's -M to return undef.


    • -: causes next glob qualifiers to apply on the target of symlinks


    • Om: reverse (capital) order by modification time (so from oldest to newest like ls -rt)


    • [1]: select first matching file only



  • -M file: gets the age of the content of the file.


  • 0+ or 86400* force a conversion to number (for the undef case).






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  • I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 14:39







  • 2





    @GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Apr 4 at 15:37











  • I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago

















  • I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    Apr 4 at 14:39







  • 2





    @GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Apr 4 at 15:37











  • I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

    – Georgе Stoyanov
    2 days ago
















I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 14:39






I am getting just 0 as an output even though it should show me a couple of thousands of seconds, both commands actually gives me the same output and on another machine I am getting an error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(', the one giving me an error is running a rather old version of perl: v5.16.3

– Georgе Stoyanov
Apr 4 at 14:39





2




2





@GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

– Stéphane Chazelas
Apr 4 at 15:37





@GeorgеStoyanov, the syntax is for zsh, not bash.

– Stéphane Chazelas
Apr 4 at 15:37













I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

– Georgе Stoyanov
2 days ago





I missed that part :) Thanks for the answer @Stephane

– Georgе Stoyanov
2 days ago

















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