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Old 08-12-2010
ls -l on a directory and grep for a variable
I want to find all entries in a directory for a given date, and write those entries to a file.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
d=`date '+ %b %e'`   # -- this works e.g. Aug 1
files=`/usr/bin/ls -l|grep '$d' ` # -- the pipe doesnt work, but the ls -l does.

What do i need to do to be able to send the list of files to '> an_output.dat'
Last edited by vbe; 08-12-2010 at 11:07 AM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 08-12-2010
the shell will not substitute $d when masked with '', use ""
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Old 08-12-2010
:-)
Thanks! I also added the echo "$files" to capture the output in a flat file. Very much appreciate it.
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