Searching for a files based on current date directory
Hi All,
I've been trying to do some recursive searching but not been very successful. Can someone please help.
Scenario:
I have directory structure
so what I want to do is run a script and as its 2019/11/18/ today it would go and only search on that folder and give me number of files init and tomorrow it would search in 2019/11/19/
Last edited by vbe; 11-18-2019 at 12:54 PM..
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May be a simple question for experts here....
I need to get the list of files older than 30 days in the current folder. I tried "find", but it searches recursively in all the sub directories.
Can I restrict the recursive search and extract the files only from current directory ? (18 Replies)
i want to make a bash script that searches a specific pattern in files through all subdirectories beneath the current directory..without using the command grep-R
but only the command grep..
e.g
for i in *
do
grep "pattern" $i
.....
...
done
using the character (*) the script... (5 Replies)
Hi
I was wondering why command 2 doesn't work like command 1 below.
1.
find . -exec grep "test" '{}' \; -print
2.
ls -R | grep "test"
I am trying to search "test" from all the files in the current and sub directories. What's wrong with my command 2?
Thanks in advance for your help (4 Replies)
Hi All
I was wondering what is the most efficient way to find files in the current directory(that may contain 100,000's files), that meets a certain specified file type and of a certain age.
I have experimented with the find command in unix but it also searches all sub directories. I have... (2 Replies)
hi all,
here is the description to my problem.
input parameters: $date1 & $date2
based on the range i need to select the archived files from the archived directory and moved them in to working directory.
can u please help me in writing the code to select the multiple files based on the... (3 Replies)
Hi, I have a question, is there any way I can, when i create a directory, put the current date on it so that the directory name will be "name-current date"? just curious (3 Replies)
this is what i have to find the files modified within the past 24 hours
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf "$archive.tar"
however i need to save/name this archive as the current date (MM-DD,YYYY.tar.gz)
how do i doo this (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am currently coding for a requirement(LINUX OS) where I am supposed to move a file (Lets Call it Employee.txt) from Directory A to Directory B based on 2 date fields as below,
Date_Current = 20120620
Date_Previous = 20120610
Source Directory : /iis_data/source
Target... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
Really stuck up with a requirement where I need to move a file (Lets say date_Employee.txt--the date will have different date values like 20120612/20120613 etc) from one directory to another based on creation/modification dates.
While visiting couple of posts, i could see we can... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am unable to find files, those are present anywhere in the same directory tree, based on the creation date. I need to find the files with their path, as I need to create them in another location and move them. I need some help with a script that may do the job.
Please help (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sam192837465
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dircmp
dircmp(1) User Commands dircmp(1)NAME
dircmp - directory comparison
SYNOPSIS
dircmp [-ds] [-w n] dir1 dir2
DESCRIPTION
The dircmp command examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories. Listings of
files that are unique to each directory are generated for all the options. If no option is entered, a list is output indicating whether the
file names common to both directories have the same contents.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d Compares the contents of files with the same name in both directories and output a list telling what must be changed in the two
files to bring them into agreement. The list format is described in diff(1).
-s Suppresses messages about identical files.
-w n Changes the width of the output line to n characters. The default width is 72.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
dir1 A path name of a directory to be compared.
dir2
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of dircmp when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of dircmp: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred. (Differences in directory contents are not considered errors.)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)SunOS 5.11 1 Feb 1995 dircmp(1)