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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to extract latest file by looking at date time stamp from a directory? Post 302800565 by Little on Tuesday 30th of April 2013 04:51:03 AM
Old 04-30-2013
How to extract latest file by looking at date time stamp from a directory?

hi,

i have a Archive directory in which files are archived or stored with date and time stamp to prevent over writing.

example:
there are 5 files
Code:
s1.txt
s2.txt
s3.txt
s4.txt
s5.txt

while moving these files to archive directory, date and time stamp is added.
of format `date +%Y%m%d`.`date +%H%M%S%N`
Code:
s1.txt.20130430.1412267000      
s2.txt.20130430.1412261233
s3.txt.20130430.1412261322
s4.txt.20130430.1412263211
s5.txt.20130430.1412263244

i want to extract the latest files which came in the last 5 mins. can any1 help me with a script.

please let me know if you need more clarification

Thanks

Last edited by radoulov; 04-30-2013 at 07:17 AM..
 

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