New file script
Aimee Kvasir
Developer : San Francisco
topics: Software, Programming Languages, Process, and Rock and Roll
filed under: Programming Languages
I set up a file server at home so that I can access my files from any computer in the house. I put new files on the box all the time, and don’t always remember what’s new when I want to grab new songs or put photos online, so I wrote this thing in ruby to run through the files on the drive and make a list of new ones. A cron job runs it once a week. Next on the agenda, I’ll make it email me the list and copy all the new files to my backup drive.
It gives you a total new file count at the end, and some spiffy output to look at while it runs. It also skips those dot files that OS X leaves all over the place.
require 'date'
require 'find'
total_new_files = 0
now = Time.now
a_week_ago = now-(604800)
filename = "newfiles" + Date.today.to_s + ".txt"
File.open(filename,"w") do |file|
Find.find("/none/of/your/business") do |f|
type = case
when File.file?(f): it = f
else "?"
end
if it != nil && !(it =~ /DS_Store/i)
filename = (it.to_s).split(/\//)
unless filename.last =~ /^\./
print "."
if File.ctime(it) >= a_week_ago
file << it.to_s + "\n"
total_new_files = total_new_files + 1
end
end
end
end
end
puts "total new files: " + total_new_files.to_s
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