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# 22  
Old 09-12-2012
If you want to find the files whose access time is 7 days before then use find command ..it will be better ...
# 23  
Old 09-12-2012
hi machindra89

Could I use the Find command to fined this file VSL010<date -7>000000.txt

The <date-7> would be in the format of %y%m%d

Would the find command work with the calendar?
# 24  
Old 09-12-2012
You will get all files whose modification time is before 7 days ..the command is :
Code:
find . -mtime +7 -name "*.txt"

from this command you can list out the files whose modification time is 7 days before in current directory....

or if you want to use access time to get list of files

then use it :
Code:
find . -atime +7 -name "*.txt"

If it is not useful to you ....please explain ur problem in detail ..Smilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 09-12-2012 at 08:04 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
# 25  
Old 09-12-2012
That could potentially be an option if I cant get this working, basically in the below script for the DATE3 variable in the script Im tryig to get it to insert the date - 7 days i.e 120912 is todays date, I want it to insert 120905

Everything I've tried from previous posts and through what I have tried myself doesn't want to work Smilie

Code:
 
#!/bin/bash
#A backup script if the default data file has not been sent over 
EXTEN=.txt
VALID=VSL0120
DATE1=$(date +%y%m%d)
DATE2=000000
DATE3=(TZ=GB+168 ; date +%y%m%d ; TZ=GB-168)
DIR=/apps/live/aahvanroutedata
if [ ! -e $DIR/VSL01_D* ]
then 
echo "We have not received todays default data file from Alliance, the default data file has been used from the previous week" > default_data_backup_email
cp $DIR/$VALID$DATE3$DATE2$EXTEN $DIR/$VALID$DATE1$DATE2$EXTEN >> /export/home/tjmoore/default_data_backup_email
/usr/local/bds/mailsend.s mailx "Backup Default Data File has been used" ,email address> <email address>  /export/home/tjmoore/default_data_backup_email 2>&1 >/dev/null
fi
exit

# 26  
Old 09-12-2012
The time zone "trick" is not a reliable method of performing date arithmetic.

Have a look at the FAQ: https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html

Also: https://www.unix.com/302087991-post3.html
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# 27  
Old 09-12-2012
Hi Ygor, the datecalc script looks really good and would definately solve my problem, how would I go about including this in my script so I could get the output of the DATE3 variable to be as I require?
# 28  
Old 09-12-2012
For datecalc, I think there are examples in the FAQ.

If you have perl, perhaps try...
Code:
DATE3=$(perl -e '@f=localtime(time-(86400*7));printf "%02d%02d%02d\n",$f[5]%100,$f[4]+1,$f[3];')

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