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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Listing files of PAST 7 days and concatenate it... Post 302555651 by bakunin on Thursday 15th of September 2011 08:51:29 AM
Old 09-15-2011
You can do that all in one line, I'll show it step by step:


Quote:
Originally Posted by vivek1489
Code:
find . -mtime -7 -exec basename {} \;  (list past files but it is including . file also)

First, limit the search only to files, so directories like "." don't show up:

Code:
find . -mtime -7 -type f -exec basename {} \;

Print the found files names:

Code:
find . -mtime -7 -type f -print

Then do something with the files instead of just giving the name:

Code:
find . -mtime -7 -type f  -print -exec cat {} >> /some/output/file \;

Be sure to concatenate the files in a location other than where you search, because otherwise the new file will become concatenated to itself (which is very bad mojo for files).

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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sysstat

SYSSTAT(5)							Linux User's Manual							SYSSTAT(5)

NAME

       sysstat - sysstat configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

       This  file is read by sa1(8) and sa2(8) shell scripts from the sysstat's set of tools.  It consists of a sequence of shell variable assign-
       ments used to configure sysstat logging.  The variables and their meanings are:

       HISTORY
	      The number of days during which a daily data file or a report should be kept. Data files or reports older than this number  of  days
	      will be removed by the sa2(8) shell script.

       COMPRESSAFTER
	      Number of days after which daily data files are to be compressed, either by gzip or bzip2.

       SADC_OPTIONS
	      Options  that  should be passed to sadc(8).  With these options (see sadc(8) manual page), you can select some additional data which
	      are going to be saved in daily data files.  These options are used only when a new data file is created. They will be  ignored  with
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FILES

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AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

       sadc(8), sa1(8), sa2(8)

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