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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Working with files that are named with a timestamp Post 302740651 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 6th of December 2012 01:52:56 PM
Old 12-06-2012
try assuming OSX:

Code:
date -v-[something you want] +'%y%m%d%H'

where [something you want] is a past time
-1H == one hour ago
-5M == 5 minutes ago.

So try -15M and run it at :05 after the hour.

A comment to make your life easier -- :

Those filename "timestamps" could easily be stale. ie., I started my process at 12:59.
It has 12 as the hour, because it was opened at 12:59, when open created the file.

But. It is now 13:02. My report process is still running! So, when you sftp, you are not going to get my whole file. It has not closed yet. To be safe you really should look at the mtime of the files.
 

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PCLOCK(1)						      General Commands Manual							 PCLOCK(1)

NAME

       pclock - pixmap clock

SYNOPSIS

       pclock [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the pclock command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       pclock is a program that places a small analog clock program on the desktop of X.  It was designed to run under the WindowMaker window man-
       ager.  It uses any 64x64 pixmap as a background.

OPTIONS

       The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-') and short optoins starting with one
       dash.  A summary of options is included below.

       -B PIXMAP, --background=PIXMAP
	      Use the given pixmap as the clock background (size must be 64x64).

       -H COLOR, --hands-color=COLOR
	      Draw the hands (hour, minute and second) in the specified color.

       -S COLOR, --second-hand-color
	      Draw the second hand in the specified color

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --hour-hand-length=INT
	      Draw the hour hand with the specified length of INT.

       --minute-hand-length=INT
	      Draw the minute hand with the specified length of INT.

       --second-hand-length=INT
	      Draw the second hand with the specified length of INT.

       --second-hand-width=INT
	      Draw the minute hand with the specified width of INT.

       -s, --second-hand
	      Don't display the second hand.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

       -w, --withdrawn
	      Don't start up in a withdrawn (iconic) state.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).	The  soft-
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