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sort by date and concatenate first three
Hi:
I am trying to create some script that sorts the files in a subdirectory by date and concatenates the thre most recently created files. SAy, file1 date1 file2 date2 file3 date3 file4 date4 file5 date5 file6 date6 i only want to concatenate the first three which are the most recently created files. any help? |
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Code:
#!/bin/ksh cat $( ls -rt file* | tail -3 ) > newfile |
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Thank you for the code
 . it works however I did not think of the case where the system could go down and I could have 6 or x files to read.Hence, how would I get the files that are yesterday's only even if they are mixed up with older-than-yesterday files? Thank you |
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one way Code:
cat $(find . -name 'file*' -mtime -2) > /path/to/newfile |
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