Shell Programming and Scripting

yup...
sori for the mistake...
its latest folder...

Code:

 touch -t $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M) tmpfile
 mydir=$( (find . -name "host_????????.?????????*" -type d -newer tmpfile) )

if [$? -ne 0 ] ; then

 cp AAA.txt BBB.txt $mydir
fi

mydir=$( (ls -1dt host_????????.????????? | head -n 1) )
cp AAA.txt BBB.txt $mydir

this is some of the file that i will received.
10.0.1.79_20100601.085868276
10.0.1.79_20100601.090022717
10.0.1.79_20100601.090108699
10.0.1.79_20100601.090149586

but i will continuously get new file like above.
inside the directory i only have to copy two specific file.txt
the problem is i have to copy only the latest file.txt from the latest directory i received..

need ur help ASAP

Please, excuse the interruption. I'm trying to follow this thread, but really I have no idea what you are asking for.

These are files, or directories?:

Code:

10.0.1.79_20100601.085868276
10.0.1.79_20100601.090022717 
10.0.1.79_20100601.090108699 
10.0.1.79_20100601.090149586

This suggests they are files:
So what does this mean:
What directory?

And this:
What are the files here? What are the directories?

Maybe you should try to start again, from the beginning - slowly, and more clearly, because this is really going nowhere, sadly.

sorry for making you confused.

1)these are the directories:
10.0.1.79_20100601.085868276
10.0.1.79_20100601.090022717
10.0.1.79_20100601.090108699
10.0.1.79_20100601.090149586

2)yup i will continuously get new directory like above
but the directory name according to time and date that they are created.

3)inside these the latest directory that have been created.
can you get what i mean.
if not please ask me.
sorry for that.
and thanks for the reply...

So, there is nothing like "latest file" i guess.
you have a file, named "file.txt" which is available in perhaps all the directory. and you want to copy "file.txt" from the latest directory.

one question,

Code:

10.0.1.79_20100601.085868276

The green part is millisecond or something?

Code:

ls -lrt 10.0.1.79*

Check if this gives you the latest directory ( which you want ) in the last.
if not, I think we need to sort the directories based on the date/time present in the directory name to get the latest directory.

yup...
you are right...

but then i do not sure whether
10.0.1.79_20100601.085868276green part is millisecond or not.

i want it based on time and date.
thanks