Re: Read stream files by data/time?

if you want to stick in RPG programming.
I think the best API would be scandir().
I was unable to find reference to it in the IBM i documentation.
below is from AIX
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.basetrf2/scandir.htm <http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.basetrf2/scandir.htm>

so your best bet is to use readdir() and sort the data.

maybe IBM could provide, but that would be a future release, sigh.

otherwise you need to use the QSHELL “ls -lt"

bryan

On Jan 20, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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