There's one thing in your favor -- YYYY MM DD HH MM SS dates sort alphabetically. ls will give you them in date order. Then all you do is an alphabetic < > comparison to see if they're in the range you want...
Code:
printf "Enter start YYYY/MM/DD HH "
# Should work for YYYY/MM/DD HH or YYYY MM DD HH
IFS="/ " read S_YYYY S_MM S_DD S_HH
printf "Enter end YYYY/MM/DD HH "
IFS="/ " read E_YYYY E_MM E_DD E_HH
EARLIEST="XSLog$S_YYYY.$S_MM.$S_DD-$S_HH.00.00.txt"
LATEST="XSLog$E_YYYY.$E_MM.$E_DD-$E_HH.59.59.txt"
ls -1 | awk -v E="$EARLIEST" -v L="$LATEST" '($0 >= E) && ($0 <= L)' | xargs sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/1234/!d'
:confused: Hi i am a noob and need a little help to finish my shell script. I am learning as i go but hit a problem.
I am search thorugh logs(*.rv) files to find entires between two user defined dates,
The script so far looks for the "START" and "END" of each entry at sees if it belongs To... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
Iam writing a script, which will extract all the files from Start_Date to End_Date. Files are date stamped as YYYYMMDD. For ex:
Start_Date='20051001'
End_Date='20060331'
extract files such as........
ramp_20050810.rpt
ramp_20050915.rpt
ramp_20051001.rpt
ramp_20051010.rpt... (2 Replies)
I have a file (status.file) of the form:
valueA 3450
valueB -20
valueC -340
valueD 48
I am tailing a data.file, and need to search and modify a value
in status.file...the tail is:
tail -f data.file | awk '{ print $3, ($NF - $(NF-1)) }'
which will produce lines that look like this:
... (3 Replies)
Ok, I have a script with a commandline option that allows the user to add a custom function to the script file. I have tried everything in my limited knowledge of sed to get this to work and keep coming up short. I need sed to search for a line starting with a pattern, I've got that part so far,... (0 Replies)
Hi,
Currently I am working on a script to automate the process of converting the log file from binary into text format. To achieve this, partly I am depending on my application’s utility for this conversion and the rest I am relying on shell commands to search for directory, locate the file and... (5 Replies)
Hi, i am very new to php Is it possible to display Range of date depend on user input day
example:
user input 2 day start from 28/4/12 it will add 2 day from date of input
so display should look like this
28/4/12 to 30/4/12
then from 30/412 user add another 4 date so will... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I'm quite new to ksh scripting, can someone help me with this.
Requirements:
I need to create a script that list the files from a user input date range.
e. g. format of file:
*c1*log.2012-12-22-14-00*
*c1*log.2012-12-22-14-00*
*c1*log.2012-12-22-14-00*... (1 Reply)
My unix version is IBM AIX Version 6.1
I tried google my requirement and found the below answer,
find . -newermt “2012-06-15 08:13" ! -newermt “2012-06-15 18:20"
But newer command is not working in AIX version 6.1 unix
I have given my requirement below:
Input:
atr files:
... (1 Reply)
In the below bash a file is downloaded when the program is opened and then that file is searched based on user input and the result is written to a new file.
For example, the bash is opened and the download.txt is downloaded, the user then enters the id (NA04520). The id is used to search... (5 Replies)
grep-changelog(1) General Commands Manual grep-changelog(1)NAME
grep-changelog - print ChangeLog entries matching criteria
SYNOPSIS
grep-changelog [options] [CHANGELOG...]
DESCRIPTION
grep-changelog searches the named CHANGELOGs (by default files matching the regular expressions ChangeLog and ChangeLog.[0-9]+) for
entries matching the specified criteria. At least one option or file must be specified. This program is distributed with GNU Emacs.
OPTIONS
The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for option names.
--author=AUTHOR
Print entries whose author matches regular expression AUTHOR.
--text=TEXT
Print entries whose text matches regular expression TEXT.
--exclude=TEXT
Exclude entries matching regular expression TEXT.
--from-date=YYYY-MM-DD
Only consider entries made on or after the given date. ChangeLog date entries not in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format are never matched.
--to-date=YYYY-MM-DD
Only consider entries made on or before the given date.
--rcs-log
Print output in a format suitable for RCS log entries. This format removes author lines, leading spaces, and file names.
--with-date
In RCS log format, print short dates.
--reverse
Show matches in reverse order.
--version
Display version information.
--help Display basic usage information.
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.
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