1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I would like to list latest 2 days, 3 days or 4 days,etc of files in the directory... how? is it using ls? (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

i need a script that can tell me the date 2 days ago or 3 days ago. please help (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello, I needed to put value of date - 20 days in certain variable like this: before20d=`TZ=MET+480 date +%Y%m%d` echo $before20d value just perfect ...what I need and if I execute "date": Wed Nov 10 11:58:43 MET 2010 on the other solaris platform if I execute this I get... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi.. i have written a shell script and made this script to run on every day night 11: 55 pm using a cron job. This cron job running for some days and is not running for some day. but i need this script to run every day night. Please help me. Here is the cron tab entries, 55 23 * * *... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys i need advice on the approach to this one...... I have a file say called Thisfile.20130524.txt i need to work out from the date 20130524 what day of the week that was and then process the file in 3 working days. (so not counting saturday or sunday....(will not worry about bank... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have a date 1- 2013101511 date2 -2013101812 need toget the no of hours between them,can any one tellme the logic. (6 Replies)

7. Red Hat

Hi, I have RHEL 6.1 on VM, where Big data is installed. Every 3-4 days, its web interface become very slow and I had to reboot this VM. I was checking with "top" and that shows that free memory is less. Can this be a reason for slowness ? No big load on CPU. # free -m total ... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

How to find a file that's modified more than 2 days ago but was modified less than 5 days ago by use of any Linux utility ? (4 Replies)

9. HP-UX

current date command runs well awk -v t="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat subtract 30 days fails awk -v t="$(date --date="-30days" +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat awk command in hp unix subtract 30 days automatically from current date without date illegal option error... (20 Replies)