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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get the newest files based on date Post 302338348 by Beginer0705 on Monday 27th of July 2009 03:45:37 PM
Old 07-27-2009
I need to get **a group of latest files** based on date.

Thanks for responding.

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For example, I need to get all of these files based on the latest/new date


Jul 27 19:38 TESTPWD_10204_file_77kgu17l_19687_1
Jul 27 19:40 TESTPWD_10204_file_7akgu17p_19690_1
Jul 27 19:59 TESTPWD_10204_file_79kgu17l_19689_2
Jul 27 20:05 TESTPWD_10204_file_7dkgu3ba_19693_1
Jul 27 20:11 TESTPWD_10204_file_7ckgu344_19692_1
Jul 27 20:22 Config_TESTPWD_10204_060609:19:10.TXT
 

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CONVDATE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CONVDATE(1)

NAME
convdate - convert time/date strings and numbers SYNOPSIS
convdate [ -c ] [ -n ] [ -s ] arg... DESCRIPTION
Convdate translate the date/time strings specified as arguments on its command line, outputing the results one to a line. OPTIONS
-c If the ``-c'' flag is used, then each argument is taken to be a time_t and is output in ctime format. -n If the ``-n'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a time_t; see time(2). -s If the ``-s'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a string for- matted by ctime(3). This is the default. EXAMPLES
% convdate 'feb 10 10am' Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991 % convdate 12pm 5/4/90 Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 1991 Fri May 4 00:00:00 1990 % convdate -n 'feb 10 10am' '12pm 5/4/90' 666198000 641880000 % convdate -c 666198000 Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991 HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>. This is revision 1.5, dated 1996/10/29. SEE ALSO
parsedate(3). CONVDATE(1)
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