I need to write a script that copies files from one directory to another that were created after "today 6:30". This script will be NOT be ran at the same time each day.
any help is appreciated. (2 Replies)
I want to loop through files in a directory but omit the file with the latest date in my list of files. How would I accomplish this?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem.
I have some text files in a folder. The names can be like:
emp_20080307053015.dat
emp_20080306053015.dat
emp_20080305053015.dat
emp_20080304053015.dat
The date format appended is like yyyymmdd and timestamp.
What i need is i have to copy the latest file every... (12 Replies)
Hi everyone,
Please help:)
I have a list of 1000 different files which comes daily to the directory.Some of
the files are not coming to the directory now.
I need to write a shell script to find the latest date and time of the files they
came to the directory. The files should be unique.... (1 Reply)
Hello all, this is my first post while i am trying to understand unix.
I would basically like to know if i can do this:
Lets say i have a folderA and folderB
And i save something in folderA
Can i make a script that checks folderA latest file, then compares it with the date of latest file in... (16 Replies)
Hello
I have three directory structures for code releases.
Each directory structure looks like this:
bash-3.00$ ls -R | more
.:
Test_Release_1
Test_Release_2
Test_Release_3
./Test_Release_1/dbcode:
rp_online_import_srdp.pkb-1
srdp_ar_validation.pkb-1... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have below two situations to handle,
1. I have list of files with file names having date&time. I have to backup to old date files. say I have below files in a directory,
1. XX123_20101004010101.dat
2. XX124_20101004010201.dat
3. XX121_20101003010101.dat
4.... (6 Replies)
ls -lrt | nawk -v D="$(date +'%b%e:'| sed 's/ //g')" 'D==$6$7":"{sub(".*"$9,$9);print}'
This picks only the latest files created based on the timestamp for that particular day..
how do i copy over the same files to a different location???? (1 Reply)
Hi Folks,
I have one query that there is a folder in which daily several logs files are getting created , I reached to that location through putty but what I observer that 10 files of different date are been created with same name , what I need to see is the latest file ...let say the location is ... (5 Replies)
In linux.. In a directory there are 3 files which I want to copy only the latest file (ls -ltr myfiles*.txt|tail -1) to other directory in perl?
Could anyone please help me with the code?
Regards,
J (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)
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