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From: Randal L. Schwartz on 26 Apr 2010 21:50
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> writes:

Ben> In my stat(2) (FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE) I have

Ben> | st_birthtime Time when the inode was created.

Ben> It's possible this is just a FreeBSD thing, but I thought it was a
Ben> 4.4-ism.

Definitely not in the One True Unix, therefore, not portable.

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From: John Bokma on 26 Apr 2010 22:17
GRP <rengaprasath(a)gmail.com> writes:

> hi,
>
> I would like to write a script to grep some pattern in few set of log
> files and alert it...
>
> In order to avoid duplicate alert i plan to store the "FILENAME:ERR-
> LINE-NUMBER:FILE-CREATION-TIME" in a flat file (colon delimiter) , so
> that next time if the same pattern found in same line it will check
> against the flat file and won't alert. At the same time if it happens
> in different line number it wud check in flat file & the 2nd filed
> would be different so it will alert.

It might help if you describe when a clash can occur, i.e. why do you
need the inode creation time, and why is filename:err-line-no not unique
(I can think of reasons, but want to know the ones in your situation.)

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From: Dr.Ruud on 27 Apr 2010 02:22
GRP wrote:

> I would like to write a script to grep some pattern in few set of log
> files and alert it...
>
> In order to avoid duplicate alert i plan to store the "FILENAME:ERR-
> LINE-NUMBER:FILE-CREATION-TIME" in a flat file (colon delimiter) , so
> that next time if the same pattern found in same line it will check
> against the flat file and won't alert. At the same time if it happens
> in different line number it wud check in flat file & the 2nd filed
> would be different so it will alert.
>
> Since i can't find a way to get ctime in unix (i tried with perl as
> well), would be there any other way to achieve this or better logic?

You can use git.

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