1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

how can i write the modified dates of all of the files in my directory to a file. i dont want any of the other junk from ls in there. i cant use the cut command (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi , I have two variables both containg dates, x= `date` and y= `date' their format being -> Fri Nov 12 22:59:50 MST 2004 how do I compare which one is greater. ->Can dates be converted into integer and then compared? ( one lengthy way would be to compare the words one by... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All. Can someone please give me an example of how I'd do a comparison to find out if the last modified date of a file is newer than yesterday (i.e. today - 1 day)? Example: if ; then echo "Do something..." fi Any ideas or examples? Thanks. (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys I have a a variable called check_ts which holds a date value. this date value keeps refreshing every 15 minutes. I am going to start a cron job 5 minutes after the refresh. I have to check if the current date > 20 min of check_ts. how do i do that. thanks ragha (17 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can you please tell me how I can list all EXE files in a dir and Subdir which where modified say before 01/01/2006 (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Gurus, I am new to unix. I have a requirement where i need to delete some files in a folder twice a week. Suppose i have a folder AAA. In that i have files from 01/04/2008 to 10/04/2008 I want to remove all the files except last 3 days i.e., 10,9th & 8th. Every week twice we want to... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. Our shop is migrating to a new UNIX server and our hope is to do a full migration of all files to the new server weeks in advance of the final migration. As a result we want to identify files on our SOLARIS 8 UNIX server that have changed or that were created after a specific date & time... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All , I have a directory called "/usr/local/apache/docs/" inside this docs i have below directories , bash-2.05# pwd /usr/local/apache/docs/ bash-2.05#ls -l | less 2 drw-r-xr-x 3 root root 512 Aug 8 2010 Form1 2 drw-r-xr-x 3 root other 512 Mar 8 ... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to compare today's date(DDMMYYYY) with yesterday(DDMMYYYY) from system date,if (today month = yesterday month) then execute alter query else do nothing.One more condition is change of year also i.e today is Jan1 2012 and yesterday is Dec 31 2011. The above rek i want in Shell... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I'm trying to compare the current date (dd-Mmm-yyyy) against a variable that is an extracted date from an sql script. Below is the code: datenow=`date '+%d-%h-%Y'` #datenow is the current date in the format dd-Mmm-yyyy sqlplus $dbuserid/$dbpassword @ $SCRIPT_PATH/business-date.sql >... (3 Replies)