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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting file basing on the timestamp substring in the file name Post 302888749 by thuyetti on Monday 17th of February 2014 06:47:00 AM
Old 02-17-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
Hmmm....

You mean something like:

Code:
filename="randomFileNames_13-02-2014_23h13m09+1392333189"
# print - "${filename#*+}"
1392333189

This is based on the assumption that "randomFileNames" will not contain the character "+", otherwise the above might get ambiguous. You might use the above in a manner like:

Code:
ls -1 /path/to/backupdir | while read FILE ; do
     TS="${FILE#*+}"
     if [ $TS -gt $some_int -a $TS -lt $other_int ] ; then   # i.e. range check
          some_command "$FILE"
     fi
done

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Thanks so much for your promt answer.
Yes the randomFileName does not contain the character "+".
May I ask you to explain me about " $TS -gt $some_int -a $TS -lt $other_int " .
Thanks so much.
Thibault
 

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