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Old 03-31-2008
find command sort options?
Hi - are there sort options with the find command? I don't see any in man. I have a script that is looping through a set a files to be processed and I need to process them in date timestamp order. tia

for file in `find ${LANDING_FILE_DIR}${BTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN1}`
do....
...
# 2  
Old 03-31-2008
Why not use "ls" instead of "find"? Like

for FILE in $(ls -1tr ${LANDING_FILE_DIR}${BTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN1})
do
...
# 3  
Old 03-31-2008
The ls may be better then using find since I'm expecting the files to be in the same directory each time....Thanks..Smilie
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Old 03-31-2008
export LANDING_FILE_DIR="/xfer/appl/btime/"
export JTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN1="BTIME_ACTUAL_WORK_HRS_wk_[0-9][0-9]_to_[0-9][0-9].csv"


for file in $(ls -1tr ${LANDING_FILE_DIR}${JTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN1})

is giving error...
..../BTIME_ACTUAL_WORK_HRS_wk_[0-9][0-9]_to_[0-9][0-9].csv not found


Can [0-9] not be used with ls?

tia
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Old 03-31-2008
can you help me i want introduction about unix please help me.
# 6  
Old 03-31-2008
I have tried in the bash, and ls can use the pattern[0-9] as a filter.

Are you sure there are files matched the pattern in the specified directory?
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Old 04-01-2008
Tools
The files land in a specified directory at varying times of a day. Each file will be uniquely named but follow a pattern.
 
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