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10-11-2012

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Originally Posted by Corona688

Neither * nor -e nor or work that way. You can't cram more than one file into -e, it won't work. By 'or' you probably meant '||'.

I'd try a loop instead of a huge or-statement, and put the files found into the $1 $2 ... list, then check if the first exists.

As a useful side-effect, the files being looked for will end up individually in $1, $2, ...

Code:

PREFIX="$1"
for D in "%Y-%m-%d" "%Y_%m_%d" "%Y%m%d" "%y-%m-%d-%H-%" "%y%m%d%H%M"
do
        TODAY="`date +$D`"
        set -- ${PREFIX}${TODAY}*
        # && is a short-form if/then.  If "$1" exists, then break out of the loop.
        [ -e "$1" ] && break
done

if [ -e "$1" ]
then
        echo "Found $# files for today:  $*"
else
        echo "No files found for today"
fi

Hi Corona688,
i tried to make some test with your suggestion,and it works when the file exists,
but the problem is when it doesn't exist,
because if the file doesn't exist the script is sending the mail to me with the latest file date format available, it is not sending the correct file date of the file,any ideas on how can i come around this?

Thanks in advance
.

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yesterday

YESTERDAY(1)						      General Commands Manual						      YESTERDAY(1)

NAME

       yesterday - print file names from the dump

SYNOPSIS

       yesterday [ -c ] [ -date ] files ...

DESCRIPTION

       Yesterday prints the names of the files from the most recent dump.  Since dumps are done early in the morning, yesterday's files are really
       in today's dump.  For example, if today is March 17, 1992,

	      yesterday /adm/users

       prints

	      /n/dump/1992/0317/adm/users

       In fact, the implementation is to select the most recent dump in the current year, so the dump selected may not be from today.

       With option -c, yesterday copies the dump file to the current directory.

       The date option selects other day's dumps, with a format of 2, 4, 6, or 8 digits of the form dd, mmdd, yymmdd, or yyyymmdd.

       Yesterday does not guarantee that the string it prints represents an existing file.

EXAMPLES

       Back up to yesterday's MIPS binary of vc:

	      cd /mips/bin
	      yesterday -c vc

       Temporarily back up to March 1's MIPS C library to see if a program runs correctly when loaded with it:

	      bind `{yesterday -0301 /mips/lib/libc.a} /mips/lib/libc.a
	      rm v.out
	      mk
	      v.out

FILES

       /n/dump

SOURCE

       /rc/bin/yesterday

SEE ALSO

       fs(4)

BUGS

       It's hard to use this command without singing.

																      YESTERDAY(1)