Without knowing what operating system and shell you're using we might be able to make lots of suggestions that can't possibly work in your environment.
Setting a the way you are gives it a value that is the literal string date +%s; not to a value that is the output produced by running that date command. Using the ls command substitution is unnecessary, slows down your script, makes it vulnerable to failure in directories with lots of files or with lots of long filenames, and will fail when given filenames containing IFS characters. Consider replacing your script with:
Code:
a=$(date +%s)
for i in *_001*
do mv "$i" "$i_$a"
done
to get rid of those problems.
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I have to capture the creation date and time stamp for a file. The ls command doesn't list all the required information. I need year, month, day, hour, minute and second.
Any ideas... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Sounds a simple request but I also need (would like) to gather the seconds too. I'm not even sure if this is held. I would think it is, somewhere??!!?!
I belive that stat would/could work but I don't do C (we'll not yet).
Is there any comamnd line util I can use?
SunOS.
Cheers... (7 Replies)
i want to copy a filea.dat to a file name in the format
of filea_yyyymmdd_hhmi.dat
using something like DTSTAMP=$(date "+%Y%m%d"),
which puts it in format filea_yyyymmdd.dat (5 Replies)
can we change the timestamp of a file to old date.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 330 Jul 1 16:03 abc.txt
it shows creation time is 16.03 can i change it to previous time
:) (2 Replies)
Hi,
As i know , we can change the time stamp of a file by touch command, i did change in a file and it is looking as given
# ls -l abcd
-rw-r--r-- 1 batsoqa sicusers 0 Feb 17 2010 abcd
actually i want to see the output like this
-rw-r--r-- 1 batsoqa sicusers ... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
Here my scenario is to find the files of previous days if the previous day load had not done. for that i created a file with time stamp and this file is created after the load completes. so every dau i search for the this file with previous days time stamp.
i want to create a file... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am facing small problem.
i want to print file time stamp on which date file has placed in the server.
i have given some code but its not giving the year.
any help appreciated.
regards
rajesh. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to read file in a directory on basis of time stamp.
e.g. If file access in last 2 minutes it should not be copy to remote directory.
Below is my script.
#!/bin/ksh
DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M"`
SEPARATER=" "
exec < out_interfaces.cfg
while read source_path... (10 Replies)
I have a file that is created via a perl script where the file is named like so: 01-07-2016_10:17:08. I am running a shell script that needs to take this file and print it. I can capture the date portion fine, but I am unsure how to capture the time stamp, since there will be a difference from what... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have multiple files that read:
Asa.txt
Bad.txt
Gnu.txt
And I want to rename them using awk to
Asa_ddmmyytt.txt and so on
...
If there is a single command or more efficient executable please share!
Thanks! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jesshelle David
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
hls
HLS(1) General Commands Manual HLS(1)NAME
hls - list files in an HFS directory
SYNOPSIS
hls [options] [hfs-path ...]
DESCRIPTION
hls lists files and directories contained in an HFS volume. If one or more arguments are given, each specified file or directory is shown;
otherwise, the contents of the current working directory are shown.
OPTIONS -1 Output is formatted such that each entry appears on a single line. This is the default when stdout is not a terminal.
-a All files and directories are shown, including "invisible" files, as would be perceived by the Macintosh Finder. Normally invisible
files are omitted from directory listings.
-b Special characters are displayed in an escaped backslash notation. Normally special or non-printable characters in filenames are
replaced by a question mark (?).
-c Sort and display entries by their creation date, rather than their modification date.
-d List directory entries themselves rather than their contents. Normally the contents are shown for named directories on the command-
line.
-f Do not sort directory contents; list them in the order they appear in the directory. This option effectively enables -a and -U and
disables -l, -s, and -t.
-i Show the catalog IDs for each entry. Every file and directory on an HFS volume has a unique catalog ID.
-l Display entries in long format. This format shows the entry type ("d" for directory or "f" for file), flags ("i" for invisible),
file type and creator (four-character strings for files only), size (number of directory sub-contents or file resource and data
bytes, respectively), date of last modification (or creation, with -c flag), and pathname. Macintosh "locked" files are indicated by
"F" in place of "f".
-m Display entries in a continuous format separated by commas.
-q Replace special and non-printable characters in displayed filenames with question marks (?). This is the default when stdout is con-
nected to a terminal.
-r Sort entries in reverse order before displaying.
-s Show the file size for each entry in 1K block units. The size includes blocks used for both data and resource forks.
-t Sort and display entries by time. Normally files will be sorted by name. This option uses the last modification date to sort unless
-c is also specified.
-x Display entries in column format like -C, but sorted horizontally into rows rather than columns.
-w width
Format output lines suitable for display in the given width. Normally the width will be determined from your terminal, from the
environment variable COLUMNS, or from a default value of 80.
-C Display entries in column format with entries sorted vertically. This is the default output format when stdout is connected to a
terminal.
-F Cause certain output filenames to be followed by a single-character flag indicating the nature of the entry; directories are fol-
lowed by a colon (:) and executable Macintosh applications are followed by an asterisk (*).
-N Cause all filenames to be output verbatim without any escaping or question-mark substitution.
-Q Cause all filenames to be enclosed within double-quotes (") and special/non-printable characters to be properly escaped.
-R For each directory that is encountered in a listing, recursively descend into and display its contents.
-S Sort and display entries by size. For files, the combined resource and data lengths are used to compute a file's size.
-U Do not sort directory contents; list them in the order they appear in the directory. On HFS volumes, this is usually an alphabetical
case-insensitive ordering, although there are some idiosyncrasies to the Macintosh implementation of ordering. This option does not
affect -a, -l, or -s.
SEE ALSO hfsutils(1), hcd(1), hpwd(1), hdir(1), hcopy(1)FILES
$HOME/.hcwd
AUTHOR
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>
HFSUTILS 14-Jan-1997 HLS(1)