Please become accustomed to provide decent context info of your problem.
It is always helpful to support a request with system info like OS and shell, related environment (variables, options), preferred tools, adequate (representative) sample input and desired output data and the logics connecting the two, and, if existent, system (error) messages verbatim, to avoid ambiguities and keep people from guessing.
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and don't complain date doesn't work this way on your system as you didn't mention any details of that...
EDIT:
Use $(date -d"${1:0:7}-01 +1month) for touching C2 as this will create it at midnight of next month's first, so that last month's entire last day is taken into account.
hi,
i m new to unix.
I have been trying to find all the files in my home directory and its subdirectories that are created in the month of september.
Can anyone please help me with this??? (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I like to get two date values from command line, and I have to copy all the files created in between that dates in a particular folder to destination folder. The date comparison is little bit consusing me. Please help.
Regards
Sethu. (2 Replies)
I need to copy a file example hhh.txt to the recently created directory by name flexite@latesttimestamp in the path interface/home/ ...
I couldnt get the name of recently created directory ....
first result of ls -lst ...that is ls -lst |head -2 gives the latest directory but i could not... (2 Replies)
Hi, I have a requirement to copy files from a windows network drive to a Linux server using shell script based on the last created date.
Ex:
FileName CreatedDate/Time
F1 05-01-2012 3:00 PM
F2 05-01-2012 3:15 PM
F3 05-01-2012 2:00 PM
When i run the shell script... (1 Reply)
hello everyone,
I am new to perl script and trying to develop a script as follows.
I am trying to Create an array for storing all file names. I am trying to copy $libs into "scratch". however i am unable to do so. Please suggest..
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy;
#use... (5 Replies)
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)
Hi,
I want to display the file names and the record count for the files in the 2nd column for the files created today.
i have written the below command which is listing the file names. but while piping the above command to the wc -l command
its not working for me.
ls -l... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need all file names in a folder which has date >= 10th of last month,
Example
: files in folder
AUTO_F1_20140610.TXT
BUTO_F1_20140616.TXT
CUTO_F1_20140603.TXT
FA_AUTO_06012014.TXT
LA_AUTO_06112014.TXT
MA_AUTO_06212014.TXT
ZA_AUTO_06232014.TXT
Output:
AUTO_F1_20140610.TXT... (9 Replies)
could you please assist the below query.
i had written the below piece of code to copy the files from one directory to another. For current month files had been copied ,unfortunately the previous month files not copied.
Please find the below directory structure:-
ls -lrt
total 1824... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: venkat918
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
touch
TOUCH(1) User Commands TOUCH(1)NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied.
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD
change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela-
tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu-
mented here but is fully described in the info documentation.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
Report touch bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report touch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'touch invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 TOUCH(1)