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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ls -l | grep $date (failing) Post 79841 by yongho on Monday 1st of August 2005 11:35:47 AM
Old 08-01-2005
ls -l | grep $date (failing)

Example file list
Code:
> ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x   1 .......  ......      1707 Feb  5  2004 file1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 .......  ......       175 Jan 21  2005 file2
-rwxr-xr-x   1 .......  ......        95 Apr  1 16:15 file3

The Script
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

# date variables
start_date_Y=`date +%Y`   # year  (ie: 1998, 2005)
start_date_b=`date +%b`   # month (ie: Jun, Jul)
start_date_d=`date +%d`   # day   (ie: 09, 25)

# format the date value for day for `ls -al | grep <date>`
# ex: converts day value of '01' into ' 1' or '09' to ' 9', etc)
typeset -L1 get_first_char  # used to get first character of `date +%d`
typeset -R1 get_second_char # used to get second character of `date +%d`
get_first_char="$date_d"
get_second_char="$date_d"
if (( get_first_char==0 )); then
    date_d=" ${get_second_char}"
fi

ls -l | grep "$date_b $date_d"

I've read somewhere on this forum that when doing an ls -l command, files that are older than 6 months will be displayed (Mmm dd yyyy) as opposed to (Mmm dd hh:ss). My script doesn't account for this.

Can anyone suggest the workaround for this?

Last edited by yongho; 08-01-2005 at 12:54 PM..
 

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DATETIME.SETDATE(3)							 1						       DATETIME.SETDATE(3)

DateTime::setDate - Sets the date

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public DateTime DateTime::setDate (int $year, int $month, int $day) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style DateTime date_date_set (DateTime $object, int $year, int $month, int $day) Resets the current date of the DateTime object to a different date. PARAMETERS
o $object -Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(3). The function modifies this object. o $year - Year of the date. o $month - Month of the date. o $day - Day of the date. RETURN VALUES
Returns the DateTime object for method chaining or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Changed the return value on success from NULL to | | | DateTime. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 DateTime.setDate(3) example Object oriented style <?php $date = new DateTime(); $date->setDate(2001, 2, 3); echo $date->format('Y-m-d'); ?> Procedural style <?php $date = date_create(); date_date_set($date, 2001, 2, 3); echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d'); ?> The above examples will output: 2001-02-03 Example #2 Values exceeding ranges are added to their parent values <?php $date = new DateTime(); $date->setDate(2001, 2, 28); echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . " "; $date->setDate(2001, 2, 29); echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . " "; $date->setDate(2001, 14, 3); echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . " "; ?> The above example will output: 2001-02-28 2001-03-01 2002-02-03 SEE ALSO
DateTime.setISODate(3), DateTime.setTime(3). PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.SETDATE(3)
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