Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Want to mv files form one folder to another by date Post 302183439 by ghostdog74 on Wednesday 9th of April 2008 04:35:42 AM
Old 04-09-2008
GNUawk
Code:
awk  'BEGIN { 
 ## you do the maths...this may not be correct. calculate how many secs in 7 days
 onehr=60
 onemin=60
 oneday = ( onehr * onemin ) * 24
 sevendays = oneday * 7  
}
 day=substr($0,3,2)
 month=substr($0,5,2)
 year=substr($0,7,2)
 hr=substr($0,9,2)
 min=substr($0,11,2)
 t="20"year" "month" "day" "hr" "min" "00
 d=mktime(t)
 now=systime()
 if ( ( now - d ) >= sevendays ) {
  print $0
 }
}' file

 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can i delete files in folder by date?

Hi, I have some files on a folder and i want to delete all the files that were created on July. Thanks, Kobi. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: kobibn
9 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

command to list files with path & date in a folder

Hi, I need command to display files with full path and date of files where are generated at every 5hrs in a folder. eg: /u01/app/test/orjthsd_1_1 Sun May 10 19:03:26 2009 /u01/app/test/weoiusd_1_1 Sun May 10 21:00:26 2009 thanks saha (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: saha
3 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Transfer files with web based form by date

Not sure how I should approach this one. I have server X and Server Y. X is a collector. All files are seperated by hour. Y is used strictly for analysis. I do not always need all files from X. Sometimes other people use Y for analysis and do not always know how to transfer the files from... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrlayance
3 Replies

4. Linux

rename files in a folder with date&time stamp

Hi, I want to rename all the files (more than 100 files) in a fodler to another folder with date&time stamp. foe eg, file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat .. to be renamed as file1100629_16_30_15.txt (yy-mon-dd_hh_mi_ss) file1100629_16_30_16.txt .. so on (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: feroz
2 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

ksh shell script to add date (YYYYMMDDHHMISS) to all .txt files in a folder

Everyday 15 files are written to a folder \app\where\thefiles\are\destined\CURRFOLDER Task1: I need to add date in YYYYMMDDHHMISS format to each of them. Example: File: ACCOUNT.txt Should be updated as: ACCOUNT_20101005175059.txt Task 2: After I update the files, they need to be ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Duminix
2 Replies

6. HP-UX

How can I find the size of files added to a folder after a particular date

Hi, I want to find the size of the files added to a folder after a certain date(say 1st of october), I know we can list the files which were created after a certain date , but is there anyway to find the total size of those files ? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: alookachaloo
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Select all files in a folder based on creation date (ls command)

Hi All, <Re-posting in Correct group> I'm trying to select all the files in a folder that starts with a particular name format and are created in a gven date range using 'ls' command...but i'm not successful.... Example : I'm trying to see all the text files in a folder who names start... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Satya C1
6 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete oldest folder based on folder named as date

Hi, I have a script doing backup to synology server, the script create new folder each day with the date as being folder name i.e. 2018-07-30. Just before creating the new folder I want the script to find the oldest folder from the list and delete it including its content. for example... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: humble_learner
3 Replies

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

UNIX script to replace old date with current date dynamically in multiple files present in a folder

I am trying to work on a script where it is a *(star) delimited file has a multiple lines starts with RTG and 3rd column=TD8 I want to substring the date part and I want to replace with currentdate minus 15 days. Here is an example. iam using AIX server $ cat temp.txt RTG*888*TD8*20180201~... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Shankar455
1 Replies
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:52 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy