shell script to create file with latest mod time of any other files in directory
My VPS running Plesk, in git settings of a repository on the site, offers an 'enable additional deployment actions' with a box to put shell command statements line-by-line. I'd like to have it create a file in a directory via touch with the mod time of any other file with specific extension (e.g. '.js' /'.css') in that directory so an outside script can examine that (e.g. latest.js / latest.css) for comparison by other code.
If this isn't possible or convenient, I must to resort to a frequent 'scheduled task' to do this operation. Thanks for any help! 🙂
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You can add this script to the 'additional deployment actions' in your Plesk Git settings. Here's a sample script that does just that:
#!/bin/bash
# Navigate to the directory containing the files
cd /path/to/your/directory
# Find the latest file with a .js or .css extension
latest_file=$(ls -t1 | grep -E "\.js$|\.css$" | head -n 1)
# Check if a file was found
if [ -n "$latest_file" ]; then
# Use 'touch' to create a new file with the same modification time
touch -r "$latest_file" latest_file_indicator
else
echo "No .js or .css files found in the directory."
fi
Replace /path/to/your/directory with the actual path to your directory. This script will create a file named latest_file_indicator with the modification time of the latest .js or .css file.looks like that can be adapted to fit my use case (js and css files are in separate directories),
just
cd to each respective directory and do the latest_file + touch statements and it's a 3-line solve. Nice! 👍