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Old 01-06-2011
if condition for files older then 24 hours in direc

Hi all

I have directory /tmp and i have logs are written in it every 18 to 20 hours in date format.

now i need write some if condition which can find which files came into /tmp dir with name start from LOG_`date`.log in last 24 hours.

can somebody help me on this.
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Old 01-06-2011
Look at mtime switch in find
Files created in within 24 hrs
Code:
find /tmp -name "LOG_*.dat" -mtime -1

Files created in after 24 hrs
Code:
find /tmp -name "LOG_*.dat" -mtime +1

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Old 01-06-2011
Code:
LOG_`date`.log

Off topic. This is not a good name for a file. It will contain spaces, colons and other unwanted characters.

A better technique is:
Code:
YYYYMMDD="`date +%Y%m%d`"        # Reversed date yyyymmdd
LOG_${YYYYMMDD}.log

Much easier to deal with in subsequent scripts. Also comes out in date order in a basic "ls".
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