It does not make sense to request the most recent directory and then want a return code for an answer. This returns the ouptut for ls -l for one file.
Do you want the last time modified or the inode time? Change the ls parameters to match your requirements. The reason I ask is that some posters do not fully understand the difference.
inode time is as close as you get for "create" time - for many kinds of file systems. Since I do not know what filesystems you are using this is the best I can do for you....
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how do you put a space in a wild card thing..
example
"LastAnalysisT.*${MONTH}.*${DAY}.*20${YEAR}"
I need to make it something like
"LastAnalysisT.*${MONTH}<I need a space here>.*${DAY}.*20${YEAR}"
So it would be something like:
LastAnalyst*May 24*2004
Where * just means I dont... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a job that will be running nightly incremental backsup of a large directory tree.
I did the initial backup, now I want to write a script to verify that all the files were transferred correctly. I did something like this which works in principle on small trees:
diff -r -q... (6 Replies)
hi all,
i have created a file by name tt and while listing the file ,i used the command
$ls t from which i was expecting not to list tt file output coz of uppercase range, But it listed that file tt file and am not able understand the reason. kindly help.
NOTE OS :Red Hat Enterprise... (0 Replies)
I want to backup all the directory tress, including hidden directories, without copying any files.
find . -type d gives the perfect list.
When I tried tar, it won't work for me because it tars all the files.
find . -type d | xargs tar -cvf a.tar
So i tried rsync.
On my own test box, the... (4 Replies)
Hi,
How do i check if I have read/write/execute rights on a UNIX directory?
What I'm doing is checking read access on the files but i also want to check if user has rights on the direcory in whcih these files are present.
if then......
And I check if the directory exists by using... (6 Replies)
Im trying to use wild cards to find files that start with either an upper or lower case letter e.g. list files that beginning with b or B, i also want to sort them by the time they were last modified. e.g latest file created first.
At the moment i have the following code that
ls -d... (3 Replies)
I have constant trouble with XCOPY/s for multi-gigabyte transfers.
I need a utility like XCOPY/S that remembers where it left off if I reboot. Is there such a utility? How about a free utility (free as in free beer)?
How about an md5sum sanity check too?
I posted the above query in another... (3 Replies)
Hi experts,
I am new to perl.
I am trying to get the last file from set of files.
Using the below code; but getting error
pls help
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 12584 Mar 18 16:22 /abc/def/ghi/xyz.HOSTNAME.2016.03.18.16.21.69709-6
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 12623 Mar 18 16:25... (4 Replies)
I want to use Find command to find directories that have certain name and them find files in that directory having only some extensions. So far, I have come up with this command to list directories with wild card name and list ALL the files in that directory.
find . -type d -name prog\* -print... (11 Replies)
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clri
CLRI(8) BSD System Manager's Manual CLRI(8)NAME
clri -- clear an inode
SYNOPSIS
clri special_device inode_number ...
DESCRIPTION
Clri is obsoleted for normal file system repair work by fsck(8).
Clri zeros out the inodes with the specified inode number(s) on the filesystem residing on the given special_device. The fsck(8) utility is
usually run after clri to reclaim the zero'ed inode(s) and the blocks previously claimed by those inode(s). Both read and write permission
are required on the specified special_device.
The primary purpose of this routine is to remove a file which for some reason is not being properly handled by fsck(8). Once removed, it is
anticipated that fsck(8) will be able to clean up the resulting mess.
SEE ALSO fsck(8), fsdb(8), icheck(8), ncheck(8)BUGS
If the file is open, the work of clri will be lost when the inode is written back to disk from the inode cache.
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