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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding Files By Name Post 302512495 by alister on Sunday 10th of April 2011 03:33:00 PM
Old 04-10-2011
Code:
#!/bin/sh

printf '%s' 'Begin searching at (enter timestamp in YYMMDDHHMMSS format): ' >&2
read ts1
printf '%s' 'Stop searching at (enter timestamp in YYMMDDHHMMSS format): ' >&2
read ts2

for f in *.raw; do
        ts=${f%.raw}
        ts=${ts##*[!0-9]}
        expr X$ts \>= X$ts1 \& X$ts \<= X$ts2 >/dev/null && printf '%s\n' "$f"
done

Prompts are written to stderr. Should you choose, you can redirect them to /dev/null, feed the timestamps from a file or a pipe, and use the script in a pipeline.

Not knowing which shell you're using, I chose to use the incredibly cumbersome expr utility. While its syntax clashes with the shell, requiring lots of quoting, it's widely available. Depending on your shell, it could possibly be replaced with test/[. The X's are there to force string comparison, since on some platform integers may not be large enough.

Assumption: The portion of the filename that precedes the timestamp never ends with a decimal digit.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 04-10-2011 at 05:56 PM..
 

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platform::shell

platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

platform::shell 						       1.1.4							platform::shell(n)
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