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# 1  
Old 12-02-2011
how to list all the files for today in the dir
I am trying following ...
Code:
ls -ltrh | grep 'Dec  2'

but it is displaying files for last year also ..as this dir is full of files from last 3-5 yrs
I only want to files for today.

e.g .
Code:
ls -ltrh | grep 'Dec  2'
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2  2010 text23.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2  2010 text22.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2  2010 text21.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2  2010 text20.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2 20:32 test.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2 20:32 test1.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2 20:32 text3.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2 20:32 text4.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2 20:37 test11.txt
-rw-r-----   1 ajay    ajay          0 Dec  2 20:37 text12.txt

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-03-2011 at 11:46 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 12-02-2011
Try
Code:
ls -ltrh | grep "Dec 2 .*:"

# 3  
Old 12-02-2011
thanks but it is not working...no o/p.

Quote:
Originally Posted by CarloM
Try
Code:
ls -ltrh | grep "Dec 2 .*:"

# 4  
Old 12-02-2011
Code:
ls -l | perl -ne '/Dec\s+2 [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}/ && print $_'

# 5  
Old 12-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaypatil_am
thanks but it is not working...no o/p.
Depending on your OS you might need to use egrep rather than grep. Also, check if your input is
Code:
Dec 2

or
Code:
Dec  2

EDIT: Hmm, [icode] tags compress spaces!
# 6  
Old 12-02-2011
hi in /ksh korn shell there is no command as ls -h Smilie So please tell which shell u are using to run this command
# 7  
Old 12-02-2011
I want to search for all the files for today ...

ls -l | perl -ne '/Dec\s+2 [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}/ && print $_'

works but I can not hard code Dec\s+2 everyday ...ideally it should take the date dynamically and show me files only for today.

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