Question

Given a timestamp and a directory path, what would be the quickest way to find (recursively) all files changed since that time? Running an external unix tool is fine.

EDIT : People, I’m not asking how to do that, I’m looking for the quickest way to do that in a python program!

My directory trees are quite large!

Answer 1

import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/root'):
    for basename in files:
        filename = os.path.join(root, basename)
        status = os.stat(filename)
        if status.st_mtime > timestamp:
            print filename

(Or something like that, haven’t run it to test)