RE: Read stream files by data/time?

Justin,

You may get a cleaner simpler response, but here are two ways
1. qshell LS command
The -lT (- lower case L and upper case T -lT) parms see docs for other
parms
CHGVAR VAR(&LSCOMMAND) VALUE('LS -l /bncf/ > +
/QSYS.LIB/' *TCAT 'BAAFIL' *TCAT +
'.LIB/listfile.FILE/listfile.MBR')
QSH CMD(&LSCOMMAND)

Will give you a file with records like this
-rwx---rwx 1 JIMF 0 5465 Jan 14 21:56:05 2017
00982340.pdf

I don't know how to get LS to do a better date format.

Option 2 is the RPG read the IFS and you can get a better date format
(with
a few lines of code)
Several sites have IFS Listing programs, or I can post one I copied off
this
list in 2001 (old style)
You would end up either using array, data structure, or writing to a file
to
then RPG or sql to select the files to DEL

Jim Franz




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Subject: Read stream files by data/time?

Is there an API that will process all stream files within a dir by
date/time?


I'm inheriting a number of PDF files (about 625k) from our Windows team. I
need to catalogue and remove redundant files. I'm thinking that if I can
read the files in descending order by date/time, I can keep the first file
and just delete future redundant files.
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