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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding & Moving Oldest File by Parsing/Sorting Date Info in File Names Post 302220060 by danmero on Wednesday 30th of July 2008 09:46:17 PM
Old 07-30-2008
You can use the file time, if staging is empty move the oldest xml file from exports to staging.
Code:
[ "$(ls -A staging)" ] || mv /exports/$(ls -t /exports/*.xml | tail -1) /staging/

 

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xtab

exports(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							exports(4)

NAME

       exports, xtab - directories to export to NFS clients

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The file is obsolete and has been replaced by the new NFS file Please see dfstab(4) for more details.

       The file is also obsolete and has been replaced by the new NFS file Please see sharetab(4) for more details.

       The and the files are no longer used to export NFS directories.	Any modifications made to these files will have no impact on NFS.

       These manpages will be removed from future releases of HP-UX.

AUTHOR

       was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

FILES

       list of commands to be executed at boot time

       system record of shared file systems

       list of hostnames

       list of network groups

       network information

       script that executes
	      command.

SEE ALSO

       share(1M), mountd(1M), nfsd(1M), dfstab(4), hosts(4), netgroup(4), networks(4), sharetab(4).

								  TO BE OBSOLETED							exports(4)
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