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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Monitoring for specific date stamped files before and after midnight Post 302789063 by twinion on Wednesday 3rd of April 2013 03:08:14 AM
Old 04-03-2013
Monitoring for specific date stamped files before and after midnight

Hi Guys,

I am having a brain freeze....

I want to monitor a directory for a time stamped file on a sol 10 system in bash or ksh, the files will come in looking like this..

randomfile.DDMMYY.rpt

The problem i am having is the file can come in before or after midnight, the file will come in with the pre midnight date even if it comes in after mid night but i can't think what variable to use as my date, e.g
if i use

DAY=`TZ=CST+24 date '+%d%m%y'` this works fine if the script runs after midnight, but if its before midnight it's looking for the wrong date...and i need this script to monitor before and after midnight for specific files.......also there are older versions of up to 7 days of the files i'm looking for.

I'm guessing i need to some how check the time to use what variable to use? I'm sure there has to be a better way to do it.
Any suggestions would help.....in my head this seems so easy to do, but my brain is sat in the corner reading the paper giving me rude hand gestures.
 

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times(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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