Get List of Recently Accessed Files

[bhargavnova]

Objective:

Develop a Python script that retrieves a list of recently accessed files on the local system.

Features:

• Identify and list files based on their recent access timestamps.
• Provide options for specifying a directory or searching system-wide.
• Display information such as file names, paths, and access timestamps.

Example Usage:

# Example usage of the script to get recently accessed files
import recently_accessed_files

# Retrieve list of recently accessed files
recently_accessed_files.get_recently_accessed_files()

Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate

Tags: Python, File Handling, Scripting

Additional Information:

• Consider using the os module for file operations and os.path.getatime() to retrieve access times.
• Provide options for setting a time threshold for 'recent' accesses.

Contribution Guidelines

The updated guidelines can be found here.

Note:

• folder_name: recently_accessed_files
• script_name: recently_accessed_files

[onkar-kota]

Hi @bhargavnova in this issue ... we have to access list of files from specific directory or system-wide?

[bhargavnova]

@onkar-kota,

Well, that will be efficient when it's systemwide, but that will involve more complex code because systems have lots of files. let's aim for a directory now, because the whole system is itself a directory. time to get that list will increase if directory size/I mean file count increases,

so work like aiming for the directory, if you want I can assign this one to you.

[onkar-kota]

@bhargavnova Yeah, that's true... the code will be bit more complex. Yes, assign me I'll try to resolve this issue

[bhargavnova]

cool! happy coding!

[onkar-kota]

Hey @bhargavnova please check my PR #67