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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with finding files Post 302150247 by Smiling Dragon on Monday 10th of December 2007 06:36:11 PM
Old 12-10-2007
I can think of three approaches:
  • The script that creates the new folder each day could also update a symlink (call it 'today' or something). Your ftp script would then always look for this symlink instead of calculating the folder name. That also gives you some safety if the new folder hasn't been created yet when you run your search.
  • Adjust your FTP script to first run the date command with the appropriate +format commandline to get the date in the form you need.
  • Run the ftp using expect or perl to allow you to use it inetractivly, then run a 'dir -tr <dir name wildcard>'' to grab all the folders sorted with the newest last and grab the last listing to get the latest folder created. Change into this folder and carry on as usual
 

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

holidays

holidays(4)							   File Formats 						       holidays(4)

NAME

       holidays - prime/nonprime table for the accounting system

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/acct/holidays

DESCRIPTION

       The   /etc/acct/holidays file describes which hours are considered prime time and which days  are holidays.  Holidays and weekends are con-
       sidered non-prime time hours.  /etc/acct/holidays is used by the accounting system.

       All lines beginning with an "*" are comments.

       The  /etc/acct/holidays file consists of two sections.  The first non-comment line defines the current year and the start time of prime and
       non-prime time hours, in the form:

       current_year	 prime_start	  non_prime_start

       The remaining non-comment lines define the holidays in the  form:

       month/day     company_holiday

       Of these two fields, only the  month/day is actually used by  the accounting system programs.

       The  /etc/acct/holidays file must be updated each year.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Example of the /etc/acct/holidays file.

       The following is an example of the /etc/acct/holidays file:

       * Prime/Nonprime Table for the accounting system
       *
       * Curr	  Prime     Non-Prime
       * Year	  Start     Start
       *
	 1991	  0830	   1800
       *
       * only the first column (month/day) is significant.
       *
       * month/day    Company Holiday
       *
	 1/1	      New Years Day
	 5/30	      Memorial Day
	 7/4	      Indep. Day
	 9/5	      Labor Day
	 11/24	      Thanksgiving Day
	 11/25	      day after Thanksgiving
	 12/25	      Christmas
	 12/26	      day after Christmas

SEE ALSO

       acct(1M)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Mar 1991 						       holidays(4)
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