Unfortunately, date does not immediately recognize your format. Depending on your bash and date versions, the request can be fulfilled in two - admittedly a bit complex - lines:
Hi I am very new to scripting,
Can someone show me how to (in unix shell script) compare the system's date with a date in a file. The requirement is to somehow open this file (which will only have a date in it) and compare it with today's date. If they are equal execute a procedure below but if... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Any idea to get display of date - n ( n=1,2,3,4 etc) ?
For example , dtoudt will easily execute by dtoudt -3 and result is
>dtoudt -3
1234852529 Date 2009-2-17 time 14:35:29 day 47
How to get it display in 20090217 instead ?
Maybe you have other suggestion to display date... (0 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I was working some time ago n was in need to calculate date 30/31 days from today including Feb (Leap yr stuff). Today date is variable depending on day of execution of script. I tried searching but was not able to get exactly what I needed....So at that I time I implemented by my own... (3 Replies)
Hello - I have written the following basic shell script to count files, compare files and look for a particular strings in a file.
Problem 1: How do I define more than 1 file location?
#!/bin/bash
#this is a test script
FILES=$(ls /home/student/bin/dir1, home/student/bin/dir2)... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to show today's date and time in a better format than ‘date' (Using positional parameters). I found a command mktime and am wondering if this is the best command to use or will this also show me the time elapse since 1/30/70? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks... (3 Replies)
I was wondering the best way about finding files that were created today and copy them to a directory (grep ?). There can be multiple files for todays date or none. I am looking to copy all of the .lis files for todays date. I may need to modify the filename to include todays date but for the... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file like this:
2012112920121130
12345620121130msABowwiqiq
34477420121129amABamauee
e7748420121130ehABeheheei
in case the content of the file has the date of yesterday within the lines containing pattern AB this should be replaced by the current date. But if I use... (3 Replies)
Hi,
One of my Unix scripts needs to look for files coming in on Fridays. This script runs on Mondays. $date +"%y%m%d" will give me today's date. How can I get previous Friday's date.. can I do "today's date minus 3 days" to get Friday's date? If not, then any other way?? Name of the files is... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have file with number status and date1 and date1 field,
want add a column today between column date1 and date2.
file1.txt
number status date1 date2
===== ==== === =====
34567 open 27/06/13 28/06/13
45678 open 27/06/13 28/06/13
43567 open 27/06/13 28/06/13 ... (1 Reply)
hi all,
How to compare two files whether they are same are not...? like i had my input files as 20141201_file.txt and 20141130_file2.txt
how to compare the above files based on date .. like todays file and yesterdays file...? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hemanthsaikumar
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grep-changelog
grep-changelog(1) General Commands Manual grep-changelog(1)NAME
grep-changelog - print ChangeLog entries matching criteria
SYNOPSIS
grep-changelog [options] [CHANGELOG...]
DESCRIPTION
grep-changelog searches the named CHANGELOGs (by default files matching the regular expressions ChangeLog and ChangeLog.[0-9]+) for
entries matching the specified criteria. At least one option or file must be specified. This program is distributed with GNU Emacs.
OPTIONS
The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for option names.
--author=AUTHOR
Print entries whose author matches regular expression AUTHOR.
--text=TEXT
Print entries whose text matches regular expression TEXT.
--exclude=TEXT
Exclude entries matching regular expression TEXT.
--from-date=YYYY-MM-DD
Only consider entries made on or after the given date. ChangeLog date entries not in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format are never matched.
--to-date=YYYY-MM-DD
Only consider entries made on or before the given date.
--rcs-log
Print output in a format suitable for RCS log entries. This format removes author lines, leading spaces, and file names.
--with-date
In RCS log format, print short dates.
--reverse
Show matches in reverse order.
--version
Display version information.
--help Display basic usage information.
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions for modified
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