07-01-2014
So a few questions first:-
- What have you tried so far?
- What errors/output are you getting?
- What OS and version are you using?
- What tools do you prefer?
Most importantly,
What have you tried so far?
If you were to consider the problem as a manual tasks, break it down into smaller chunks and logically work out the simplest steps you can. Does that help?
Show us your efforts and thinking and we will be better placed to help you.
Robin
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I use the date function to get the following format?
Nov 18
I've tried date +%b%d but I get it in this format: Nov18 with no space. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ssmiths001
1 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm very new to Unix, so forgive me for what will probably be a very quick fix. I have the following in a ksh script. Its purpose is to return yesterday's date. The $DAY part is coming back with a '2' but I need it to return as '02'. How can I do that?
date '+%b %d %Y' |
{
read MONTH DAY... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ssmiths001
4 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all. I am trying to do a file listing on a particular directory by date. I need to list the files and their directories that have a timestamp between Dec-1-2006 and Jan-1-2007. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mastachef
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can any one help me in getting all the files between any two given dates.. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: thanuman
8 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey guys.
I need to manipulate the system date to move forward a day. So, if the system date was 02/14/08, I need the 'new' date to be 02/15/08 so my script will look for the date of 02/15/08. The thing is the file I will be looking for always has the date of the next day.
Any ideas,
... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: ndoggy020
9 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have 2 variables in my script like this
$v_last_update_date1 = 08/18/2009 08:41:17
$v_last_update_date2 = 08/18/2009 08:30:17
Now I want to comapre with greater than
if
then go forward
else
error and exit out
I am getting unknown test operator error
Can anyone advise (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: veeru
1 Replies
7. AIX
Hi,
I need to copy particular date files from one directory to another.
For example,
I have thousands of files in
/home/usr
From this I need to copy only particular date files (each date contains thousand number of files) to some directory of another server.
Could anyone please help me... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: teddy2882
3 Replies
8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
I need to find all files other than first two files dates & last file date for month and month/year wise list.
lets say there are following files in directory
Mar 19 2012 c.txt
Mar 19 2012 cc.txt
Mar 21 2012 d.txt
Mar 22 2012 f.txt
Mar 24 2012 h.txt
Mar 25 2012 w.txt
Feb 12... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: Makarand Dodmis
16 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Please help me for the below task.
In my home directory if I run ls -l command, it lists all the files, here I want to delete files created from January 2014 to Aug 2014...but I need to keep the files which are created after September 01 2014.
Thanks
Siva (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumar85shiv
3 Replies
10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Currently I'm moving the files based on date like below.
"mv *20150901* backup_folder" - Limitation: can move only 1 day files to backup folder.
I want to move the files of different dates like 20150901,02, 03, 04.....
Is there any single command to do it.
Thanks in advance!! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: prakashs1218
2 Replies
dp(8mh) dp(8mh)
Name
dp - parse dates RFC 822-style
Syntax
/usr/lib/mh/dp [ -form file ] [ -format string ] [ -help ] [ -width columns ] dates
Description
The command parses dates according to the ARPA Internet standard. It also understands many non-standard formats, such as those produced by
TOPS-20 sites and some UNIX sites using It is useful for seeing how MH will interpret a date.
The program treats each argument as a single date, and prints the date out in the official RFC 822 format. Hence, it is usually best to
enclose each argument in double quotes (") for the shell.
Options
-form file
Overrides the default output format of The output is formatted according to the instructions in the specified file. This must be
a format file; see
-format string
Overrides the default output format of The output is formatted according to the instructions in the specified string. This must
be a format string; see
The argument to the -format option must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes Therefore, you should usually
place the argument to this option inside double quotes (").
-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
-width columns
Specifies the width of the screen in columns.
The defaults for this command are as follows:
-width defaults to the width of the terminal
Examples
This is the default format string used by
%<(nodate{text})error: %{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>
When an error is detected, this prints error: and the date that is in error. Otherwise, it outputs the proper RFC 822 format of the date.
Files
User profile.
See Also
ap(8mh)
Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC 822)
dp(8mh)