One idea, in Perl, might be to create a hash from the filelist, using the mtime (obtained via stat) as the key. Afterwards it's only a foreach $time (sort keys %hash)
Or, on the shell:
Last edited by pludi; 03-12-2009 at 06:16 AM..
Reason: code tags
hello
i have a requirement where i have a direcotry in which i get files in the format
STOCKS.20080114.dat
STOCKS.20080115.dat
STOCKS.20080117.dat
STOCKS.20080118.dat
i need to loop through the directory and sort by create date descending order and i need to process the first file.
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Hi All,
Sorry to throw this frequent question but I lost my notes on it.
How do you list the files by date? I'm on red hat.
Thanks in advance,
itik (1 Reply)
Hi all,
i'm new here in this forum. I really like the helpful answers in this forum.
Here a short question.
For a script i have to sort files by date and exclude the files of the actual date.
Sorting the files by date and preparing the output for awk is done by this line:
ls -l... (3 Replies)
:cool:
Hi all,
I have a pecular issue in sorting these files in Solaris environment.
All the below files are modified on November 4th, but I want to sort these files as per date column (eg: 01May07_1623 = ddmmmyy_hhmm)
Nov 4 18:27 SONYELEC00.GI22973.01May07_1623.gpg
Nov 4 18:27... (4 Replies)
I have list of files named file_username_051208_025233.log. Here 051208 is the date and 025233 is the time.I have to run thousands of files daily.I want to put all the files depending on the date of running into a date directory.Suppose if we run files today they should put into 05:Dec:08... (3 Replies)
Hi, I am a newbie to shell programming and I need some help in sorting a list of files in ascending order of date in the filenames.
The file format is always : IGL01_AC_D_<YYYYMMDD>_N01_01
For example, in a directory MyDirectory I have the following files:
IGL01_AC_D_20110712_N01_01.dat... (11 Replies)
Need a ksh script to get the files that were created or modified in a directory on a particular date entered by the user.
For example if a directory contains files as below :
> ll
total 41
-rw-rw-r-- 1 psn psn 199 Aug 23 07:06 psn_roll.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 psn psn ... (10 Replies)
Hi.
My example:
I have a filesystem /log. Everyday, log files are copied to /log. I'd like to set owner and permission for files and directories in /log like that
chown -R log_adm /log/*
chmod -R 544 /log/*It's OK, but just at that time. When a new log file or new directory is created in /log,... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
i have a folder, with tons of files containing as following,
on /my/folder/jobs/
some_name_2016-01-17-22-38-58_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-40-30_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-48-50_some name_0_0.zip.done
and these can be lots of similar files,... (6 Replies)
Trying to sort a bunch of files numerically but can't seem to get the command just right. This is in a IBM AIX machine.
I have a directory that has...
backup.bk1
backup.bk100
backup.bk2
backup.bk200
backup.bk3
backup.bk300
There are a lot more files but this is shortened for the... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
sortm
sortm(1) General Commands Manual sortm(1)NAME
sortm - sort messages (only available within the message handling system, mh)
SYNOPSIS
sortm [msgs] [+folder] [options]
OPTIONS
Specifies the name of the header field to use when making the date comparison. If you have a special field in each message, such as Deliv-
ery-Date:, then the -datefield switch can be used to tell sortm which field to examine. If you do not give this option, the default is to
use the Date: header field. Prints a list of all the valid options to this command. Displays the general actions that it is taking to
place the folder in sorted order. The -noverbose option performs these actions silently. The default is -noverbose.
The default settings for this command are:
+folder defaults to the current folder msgs defaults to all -datefield date -noverbose
DESCRIPTION
The command sortm sorts all the messages in the current folder into chronological order according to the contents of the Date: fields of
the messages.
By default, sortm sorts all the messages in the current folder. You can select particular messages in the folder by giving a range of mes-
sages. You can also sort messages in another folder by specifying the folder name.
If sortm encounters a message without a Date: field, or if the message has a Date: field that sortm cannot parse, it attempts to keep the
message in the same relative position. However, this does not always work; for instance, if the first message encountered lacks a date
which can be parsed, then it will usually be placed at the end of the messages being sorted.
When sortm complains about a message which it cannot order, it complains about the message number prior to sorting.
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine your MH directory
EXAMPLES
The following example sorts all the messages in the folder +meetings: % sortm +meetings The next example sorts messages 10-30 in the folder
called +test: % sortm +test 10-30
FILES
The user profile.
SEE ALSO folder(1)sortm(1)