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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Latest list of files of each type Post 303019838 by Don Cragun on Sunday 8th of July 2018 12:08:21 PM
Old 07-08-2018
I'm very confused...

The command:
Code:
find /tmp/testlog/kSR*"_"2018* -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -3 | cut -f2- -d" "

is never going to produce the output:
Code:
/tmp/testlog/log/KSR04_2018-07-05.log
/tmp/testlog/log/KSR04_2018-07-06.log
/tmp/testlog/log/KSR01_2018-07-06.log

because testlog/kSR* is never going to match testlog/log/KSR.

Are you trying to print all filenames with the latest date in the filename:
Code:
/tmp/testlog/log/KSR01_2018-07-06.log
/tmp/testlog/log/KSR04_2018-07-06.log
/tmp/testlog/log/KSR03_2018-07-06.log

???

Are you trying to print the most recently modified filenames with different numbers between KSR and _ (which in this case would be the same files)???

Are all of the files you're interested in in a single directory (as shown in your examples)? Or, are they spread out in various directories under the directory /tmp/testlog/log?

Is the first part of the filenames you want to match kSR or KSR?

What operating system are you using?

What shell are you using?

P.S. Is it OK if the most recent file is printed first instead of last?

If you're trying to get the most recent names with different numbers before the underscore, does the order of the output lines matter as long as the filenames you want are all printed?
 

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nislog

nislog(1M)						  System Administration Commands						nislog(1M)

NAME

       nislog - display the contents of the NIS+ transaction log

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/nislog [-h num | -t num]  [-v] [directory...]

DESCRIPTION

       nislog  displays  the  contents of the NIS+ server transaction log on the standard output. This command can be used to track changes in the
       namespace. The /var/nis/trans.log file contains the transaction log maintained by the NIS+ server. When updates occur, they are	logged	to
       this  file  and	then  propagated  to replicas as log transactions.  When the log is checkpointed, updates that have been propagated to the
       replicas are removed.

       The nislog command can only be run on an NIS+ server by superuser. It displays the log entries for that server only.

       If directory is not specified, the entire log is searched. Otherwise, only those logs entries that correspond to the specified  directories
       are displayed.

OPTIONS

       -h num	       Display num transactions from the ``head'' of the log. If the numeric parameter is  0, only the log header is displayed.

       -t num	       Display	num transactions from the ``tail'' of the log. If the numeric parameter is  0, only the log header is displayed.

       -v	       Verbose mode.

FILES

       /var/nis/trans.log      transaction log

ATTRIBUTES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

       nis+(1), rpc.nisd(1M), nisfiles(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+  might  not  be  supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are
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