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Old 01-24-2008
ThobiasVakayil ThobiasVakayil is offline
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Hello,

Yiou can find out the latest day and month by using the following command :

day=`ls -lrt *.log | tail -1 | awk '{printf("%2d",$7)}'`
mon=`ls -lrt *.log | tail -1 | awk '{print $6}'`

for file in `ls -l *.log | grep "$mon $day"
do
...

done
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