Corona,
This works out very nicely to only output the last modified version of the .xls file.
However, I am open to any other more efficient methods, as this does take some time to search through 400+ subdirectories.
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Corona688
You don't give -l to ls when you want to automate it. Why bother getting username, file permissions, modified date and all that when all you're doing to do is throw it away?
You can use ls to sort the files by date with -t, then just grab the first.
:o How do I confirm that the script on one server is latest compare to other servers? Is there any script which can tell me the latest version of a file across the servers?
Thanks, (2 Replies)
Hi,
Is there any simple way to get the last modified file in a set of 2 or more directories? This should return one file only (not 1 file per directory)
Thanks for your help (4 Replies)
hi,
I want to find a file which is modified within last 2 hours
i am using sun-os
i tried find . -name <filename> -mmin 120
i found that mmin option is not supported in sun-os is there any other alternative option
suggestions welcome
thanks in advance (5 Replies)
I only know how to list all sub-directories or files in specified directory. I don't know how to order them by modified date, furthermore, I don't know how to get the top one file in the sorted list. Wish you can do me a favor. Thanks in advance! (3 Replies)
Dear all,
Need a quick help/suggestion on monitoring a particular directory .
We have a deployment directory say (/users/integration/deploy ) under this there are several files which can be edited by a number of users -
We need to write a script which will check this deployment directory... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am new bie to Unix. Might be a simple question I am asking.
I want to find the last modified time of a file and find the difference between the currrent time and the last modified time. Appreciate, if someone can throw some light on what commands can be used.
Cheers,
James (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I am writing a shell script and I am struck here:
I need to find the latest file in a directory depending upon the date.
For example:
The files in the directory are:
Filename_bo_20110619
Filename_bo_20110620
Filename_bo_20110621
Filename_bo_20110622
So here, I want... (2 Replies)
I wan to pick the latest modified file name and redirect it to a file ..
ls -tr | tail -1 >file
but this is printing file ins side the filename ,
can anyone help me out (5 Replies)
I am trying to fetch the latest modified file from a directory using the command
find . -type f -exec ls -lt \{\} \+ | head | awk '{print $9}'
After the O/P, I get the below mentioned error and the command doesnt terminate at all.
find: ls terminated by signal 13
find: ls terminated by... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sree10
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
ssgrep
SSGREP(1) GNOME SSGREP(1)NAME
ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings
SYNOPSIS
ssgrep [OPTIONS] [FILES]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the ssgrep command.
ssgrep is a command line utility to search for strings in spreadsheets of any format supported by gnumeric.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options
starting with two dashes (`--').
Options controlling input file handling
--recalc
Recalculate all cells
Options controlling patterns and pattern matching
-f, --keyword-file=FILE
The path to a text file containing one key per line
-i, --ignore-case
Ignore differences in letter case
-w, --word-regexp
Match only whole words
-F, --fixed-strings
Pattern is a set of fixed strings
-R, --search-results
Search results of expressions too
-v, --invert-match
Search for cells that do not match
Options controlling output in general
-c, --count
Only print a count of matches per file
-L, --files-without-matches
Print filenames without matches
-l, --files-with-matches
Print filenames with matches
-q, --quiet
Suppress all normal output
-H, --with-filename
Print the filename for each match
-h, --without-filename
Do not print the filename for each match
-n, --print-locus
Print the location of each match
-T, --print-type
Print the location type of each match
Help options
-V, --version
Display ssgrep's version
-?, --help
Display the supported options
--usage
Display a brief usage message
EXAMPLE
To search for the string "SUM" in the file foo.gnumeric :
ssgrep SUM foo.gnumeric
To search for the strings from the file keywords in the spreadsheet foo.xls :
ssgrep --keyword-file=keywords foo.xls
LICENSE
ssgrep is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2. For information on this license look at the source code
that came with the software or see the GNU project page <http://www.gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
The copyright on ssgrep and the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code.
AUTHOR
ssgrep's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>; ssgrep builds on the gnumeric codebase.
The initial version of this manpage was based on ssindex.1 by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>.
SEE ALSO beagled(1), gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssindex(1)
The Gnumeric Homepage <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/>.
The GNOME project page <http://www.gnome.org/>.
gnumeric 2009-02-08 SSGREP(1)