Hi, today I want to post a small script to copy files and directories and add a specific owner to a folder. I did this script myself and I am fairly new to python, about 6 months of experience. If you think it should be changed or has issues, please let me know so I can improve it.
To achieve my objective I have used a few standard libraries that come already with any major python distribution (`os`, `shutil`, `pwd`, `grp`; I will talk about those in a bit more details afterwards). Then I created a function `copy_files`. This function can receive the source files path, the destination, owner and space, this parameters are used to copy the files set owner and show the results. In this function I use recursion as this is a classic recursion problem, I will come back to this further on this post. The last part of the script checks is the destination exists actually calls copy_files function. This is the code: Continue reading →

ctime, mtime  and atime are very useful commands when dealing with time related search commands in the linux Family of operating systems.

ctime; Linux find command

This post is about how to use them in

a simple but yet very powerful way. Let’s get to it:

Let say you want to find all files in a folder that follow/fulfill the following criteria:

1. the folder is /vat/lib/mysql/data
2. The file name contains: mysql-bin.
3. The files are younger than 2 days.

In other words find all the mysql binary log files that are not older than 2 days. Continue reading →

DRM Blast e-mail from defective by design:

“It’s two days before the International Day Against DRM and our community is kicking into gear. We’ll come together as a strong movement and we’ll make sure the world hears our message: Digital Restrictions Management is wrong, and we will not sit idly by while it’s imposed on us. Continue reading →