a script ive been using to get the top most recently modified files in a folder recursively. i have another version of this script with the option for file exclusion and outputs how long it took to run. also a script i used to kill vscode-server processes that were destroying my laptop when using vscode ssh from desktop

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+MAX_CPU_USAGE=30 #for limiting processes matching the query
+MAX_CPU_USAGE2=60 #for reporting (and optionally limiting) any other process
+
+# Specify the log file location
+LOG_FILE="/var/log/cpulimit.log"
+
+query='[v]scode-server'
+if [[ $1 ]]; then
+    query=${1}
+fi
+
+while true; do
+    #get the processes of interest and see if they are using too much cpu
+    PIDS=$(ps aux | grep ${query} | awk '{print $2}')
+    if [ -z "$PIDS" ]; then
+        echo "[$(date)] No ${query} processes found." | tee -a $LOG_FILE
+    else
+        # Apply the CPU limit to each offending process
+        for PID in $PIDS
+        do
+            cpulimit -p $PID -l $MAX_CPU_USAGE &
+            echo "[$(date)] CPU limit of $MAX_CPU_USAGE% applied to process with PID: $PID" | tee -a $LOG_FILE
+        done
+    fi
+
+    #see if there are any other processes using too much cpu
+    #procs=$(ps ax -o pid,%cpu,%mem,args)
+    PIDS=$(ps aux | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}')
+    for pid in ${PIDS}; do
+        res=$(ps -p $pid -o %cpu,args | grep -v %CPU)
+        cpuu=$(echo ${res} | awk '{print $1}')
+        args=$(echo ${res} | awk '{print $2}')
+        if [[ -z ${cpuu} ]]; then continue; fi
+        if (( $(echo "${cpuu} > ${MAX_CPU_USAGE2}" | bc -l) )); then
+            echo "cpuu of ${pid} is ${cpuu}"
+        fi
+    done
+    # Sleep for a specified amount of time before checking again
+    sleep 5
+done
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