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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding latest file in dir but getting syntax errors Post 302997599 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 17th of May 2017 06:57:30 AM
Old 05-17-2017
consider a shorter bit of arithmetic:
Code:
# the the age of the file using epoch seconds
fileage=$(( $(date +%s) - $(date -r min.h.bak +%s) ))
# age expressed as hours:
echo "hours = $(( $fileage / 3600 ))"
# age in days:
echo "days = $(( $fileage / 86400 ))"

You errors have a space between the variable name and equal symbol in an assign statement
Code:
var ="bad"
var= "bad"
var = "bad"
# no spaces either side of the equals symbol.
var="correct"

You have a logic problem using %H for hours - file going over midnight i.e., yesterday at 2300 and today at 0106 will give you a negative number

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DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English language metadata DESCRIPTION
"DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN" provides the english specific grammar and variables. This class is loaded if the user either specifies the english language or implicitly. EXAMPLES
Below are some examples of human readable date/time input in english (be aware that the parser does not distinguish between lower/upper case; furthermore, many expressions allow for additional leading/trailing time and all times are also parsable with precision in seconds): Simple now yesterday today tomorrow morning afternoon evening noon midnight yesterday at noon yesterday at midnight today at noon today at midnight tomorrow at noon tomorrow at midnight this morning this afternoon this evening yesterday morning yesterday afternoon yesterday evening today morning today afternoon today evening tomorrow morning tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening thursday morning thursday afternoon thursday evening 6:00 yesterday 6:00 today 6:00 tomorrow 5am yesterday 5am today 5am tomorrow 4pm yesterday 4pm today 4pm tomorrow last second this second next second last minute this minute next minute last hour this hour next hour last day this day next day last week this week next week last month this 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DateTime::Format::Natural AUTHOR
Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org> LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/> perl v5.14.2 2012-05-31 DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)
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