shell script to find files - Shell Programming and Scripting

naren_samba2005 · #1 10-21-2005

I have a directory which contains files with different kinds of extensions .everyday a file with .log gets added to it .i want to extract the file with .log extension which is created with todays date .

thanks in advance

vijaygoutham · #2 10-21-2005

I hope the below command will help you

ls | grep -e "`date "+%Y%m%d"`" | grep ".log"

If the date (in format YYYYMMDD) is not part of the log file then,

find . -mtime -1 -name "*.log"

naren_samba2005 · #3 10-21-2005

thanks for the reply vijay

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