Searching Files older than 3 hours?

[Roman]

Hi

I'm (still) quite new with AutoIt and i wonder how i can recognize files with a specific age, e.g. all files older than 3 hours, or all files older than 5 days and so on (allways refering to atribute "modifyed")

How should i script this? :">

Thanks for every hint.

Roman.

[Briegel]

Not sure but it must be possible with ExtProp.au3 from Simucal.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

FileGetTime() will be enough, I guess.

So long,

Mega

[Marc]

For example:

Local $pattern = "*.*"
Local $file
Local $handle

$handle = FileFindFirstFile($pattern)
If $handle = -1 Then
   MsgBox(4096, "Error", "No Files found!")
   Exit
EndIf

$list=""
While 1
   $file = FileFindNextFile($handle)
   If @error Then ExitLoop
   
   If $file <> "." And $file <> ".." Then
      If Not StringInStr(FileGetAttrib($file), "D") Then; not a directory
          $time = FileGetTime($file,0,1)
          $now = @YEAR & @MON & @MDAY & (@HOUR-3) & @MIN & @SEC
          if $time < $now Then
              $list = $list & $file & @CRLF
          EndIf
      EndIf 
   EndIf
Wend
FileClose($handle)
MsgBox(0,"Files older 3 hours",$list)

have fun,

Marc

[Roman]

For example:

...
...
          $now = @YEAR & @MON & @MDAY & (@HOUR-3) & @MIN & @SEC
...
...

have fun,

Marc

Thanks, but is "@HOUR-3" a good idea? E.g. if i have one a clock in the night, with "@HOUR-3" i get a "-2"

Then i get probably a non-numeric string within "$now" who cannot by compared with a number, or am i wrong?

I searched too and found the UDFs _DateAdd und _DateDiff; i think they could be a solution for me because the enable me to calculate dates and times.

Thanks,

Roman.

Edited July 14, 2006 by roman

[Briegel]

I think you don't need the two UDF's. '_DateDiff() ' and '_DateAdd ()' can you find in the 'User Defined Function - Date Management' in helpfile. You only have to include 'Date.au3'.

#include <Date.au3>

Briegel

[Marc]

Thanks, but is "@HOUR-3" a good idea? E.g. if i have one a clock in the night, with "@HOUR-3" i get a "-2"

Then i get probably a non-numeric string within "$now" who cannot by compared with a number, or am i wrong?

Oops, forgot to mention it ... you're right of course. There has to be a check if the number gets negative, add +24 hours and step one day back (checking for "walking back a month this way" and even, on the 1st of January, changing back to the last year.)

So I'd suggest to use _dateAdd() instead