here is a script I have wrote that I need help with. in the script I do a find for any file that has not been access for over 30 days, 60, 90, 180, 270 & 365 days. This works just fine. however, this takes a few days just to finish the 30 day portion. it is scanning a NAS. (millions and millions of files) as you see, the 30 day information really holds all the data need for the rest of the scripts. the 60, 90, etc. portion of the script are just redoing the same effort as the 30 day portion, except for an extended time frame. it would save in this case weeks worth of re-scanning if some how the 60, 90 180, etc.. portions could just get its data from the 30 day output. this is where I am asking for help. the output is just like an ls -l command. and you can also see from the output below, there are multiple years in this output. the script is attached and printed below. total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 60 Apr 12 13:07 config_file -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 9 Apr 12 13:07 config_file.InProgress -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 0 Apr 12 13:07 config_file.sids -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1284 Apr 19 10:41 rpt_file -rw-r--r-- 1 16074 5003 20083 Apr 26 2002 /nas/quota/slot_2/CR_APP002/eb_ora_bin1/sun8/product/9.2s/oem_webstage/oracle/sysman/qtour/console/dat1_01.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 16074 5003 20088 Apr 26 2002 /nas/quota/slot_2/CR_APP002/eb_ora_bin1/sun8/product/9.2s/oem_webstage/oracle/sysman/qtour/console/set1_04.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 16074 5003 2008 Apr 26 2002 /nas/quota/slot_2/CR_APP002/eb_ora_bin1/sun8/product/9.2s/oem_webstage/oracle/sysman/qtour/oapps/get2_03.htm -rw-r--r-- 1 16074 5003 20083 Apr 26 2002 /nas/quota/slot_2/CR_APP002/eb_ora_bin1/sun8/product/9.2s/oem_webstage/oracle/sysman/qtour/oapps/per1_01.gif any help is appreciated. these are linux distro boxes, so I am sure perl is on there too if needed.. Thanks! !/bin/ksh # search shares for files that have not been accessed for a certain time. NOTE: $IN = input search $OUT = output directory for text file # TESTS Numeric arguments can be specified as # +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. # -atime n File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. # # IN1=/nas/quota/slot_2/CR* IN2=/nas/quota/slot_3/CR* IN3=/nas/quota/slot_4/CR* IN4=/nas/quota/slot_5/CR* OUT=/nas/quota/slot_3/CR_PRJ144/steve mkdir ${OUT} for dir in ${IN1}; do find $dir -atime +30 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/30days.txt; done for dir in ${IN2}; do find $dir -atime +30 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/30days.txt; done for dir in ${IN3}; do find $dir -atime +30 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/30days.txt; done for dir in ${IN4}; do find $dir -atime +30 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/30days.txt; done for dir in ${IN1}; do find $dir -atime +60 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/60days.txt; done for dir in ${IN2}; do find $dir -atime +60 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/60days.txt; done for dir in ${IN3}; do find $dir -atime +60 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/60days.txt; done for dir in ${IN4}; do find $dir -atime +60 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/60days.txt; done for dir in ${IN1}; do find $dir -atime +90 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/90days.txt; done for dir in ${IN2}; do find $dir -atime +90 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/90days.txt; done for dir in ${IN3}; do find $dir -atime +90 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/90days.txt; done for dir in ${IN4}; do find $dir -atime +90 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/90days.txt; done for dir in ${IN1}; do find $dir -atime +180 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/180days.txt; done for dir in ${IN2}; do find $dir -atime +180 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/180days.txt; done for dir in ${IN3}; do find $dir -atime +180 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/180days.txt; done for dir in ${IN4}; do find $dir -atime +180 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/180days.txt; done for dir in ${IN1}; do find $dir -atime +270 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/270days.txt; done for dir in ${IN2}; do find $dir -atime +270 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/270days.txt; done for dir in ${IN3}; do find $dir -atime +270 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/270days.txt; done for dir in ${IN4}; do find $dir -atime +270 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/270days.txt; done for dir in ${IN1}; do find $dir -atime +365 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/365days.txt; done for dir in ${IN2}; do find $dir -atime +365 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/365days.txt; done for dir in ${IN3}; do find $dir -atime +365 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/365days.txt; done for dir in ${IN4}; do find $dir -atime +365 -exec ls -l '{}' \; ${OUT}/365days.txt; done