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# 8  
Old 03-15-2013
You missed -t option in your touch command to use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time.

If the option is not provided touch will simply create/touch 2 different files
Code:
touch -t "$start_date" /tmp/ref1
touch -t "$end_date"  /tmp/ref2

# 9  
Old 03-15-2013
Do use this set -x after #! line.

It will helpful for debugging Smilie
# 10  
Old 03-15-2013
You have a typo for your start_date variable.

Try adding the -t option to the touch command to allow entering the date in timestamp format.
# 11  
Old 03-15-2013
Script to prompt user to enter data
Hi

This is what I am getting:

Code:
#./transf
+ echo pls enter starting date format YYYYMMDDHHMM:
pls enter starting date format YYYYMMDDHHMM:
+ read star_date
201204250000
+ echo pls enter end date format YYYYMMDDHHMM:
pls enter end date format YYYYMMDDHHMM:
+ read end_date
201302282359
+ touch -t /tmp/ref1
date: bad conversion
+ touch -t 201302282359 /tmp/ref2
+ find /tmp/fr -type f ( -newer /tmp/ref1 -a ! -newer /tmp/ref2 )
+ 1> file_lst
+ 0< file_lst
+ ls -lrt /tmp/fr
total 236512
drwxr-xr-x  10 10000      10000         8192 Nov 15  2002 orca-0.27
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            314 Jan 21  2003 pr03
-rw-r--r--   1 203085     10545          314 Jan 21  2003 cfg2html_back.jpg
-rwxr-xr-x   1 203085     10545          794 Nov 13  2008 cfg2html

# 12  
Old 03-16-2013
so here is the problem that I noticed.

You are reading star_date and using start_date instead.
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# 13  
Old 03-16-2013
Script to prompt user to enter data
Hi

Thanks a lot, it does work if I do a
Code:
#more file_lst

:

Code:
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1066269 Feb  1  2012 global_cpumem_nd0_jan12.out
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys         536970 Feb  1  2012 nd0_cpu_jan12.out
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys         291498 Feb  1  2012 nd0_disk_jan12.out
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1066269 Feb  1  2012 global_cpumem_nd0_jan12.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys         536970 Feb  1  2012 nd0_cpu_jan12.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys         291498 Feb  1  2012 nd0_disk_jan12.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        30243313 Apr 25  2012 xi-2009-latest.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1714630 Apr 26  2012 nagios-3.3.1.tar.gz
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root       sys            208 Jun 21  2012 mov.ksh
drwxr-xr-x   4 root       sys           8192 Jun 21  2012 itc
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root       sys           2196 Aug 17  2012 netbandwidth.pl
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        10711040 Aug 17  2012 HP-UX_11.31_IA_PA_UtilProvider_A.01.08.07.00_HP-UX_B.11.31_IA_PA.depot
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root       sys            604 Sep  3  2012 test_d
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root       sys           1390 Sep  3  2012 daily_check
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        11048960 Feb 28 16:09 NRPE-2.12.depot
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Mar 15 15:42 start_date
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Mar 15 15:42 end_date
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root       sys            553 Mar 16 15:34 transf
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            715 Mar 16 15:35 file_lst
prep03[163]/tmp/fr #more file_lst
/tmp/fr/global_cpumem_nd0_jan12.out
/tmp/fr/nd0_cpu_jan12.out
/tmp/fr/nd0_disk_jan12.out
/tmp/fr/global_cpumem_nd0_jan12.txt
/tmp/fr/nd0_cpu_jan12.txt
/tmp/fr/nd0_disk_jan12.txt
/tmp/fr/test_d
/tmp/fr/itc/ICTEMSC32012060107100156508.cdr
/tmp/fr/itc/ICTEMSC62012060107000856497.cdr
/tmp/fr/itc/ICTEMSC52012060107100456510.cdr
/tmp/fr/itc/ICTEMSC62012053123250256110.cdr
/tmp/fr/itc/ICTEMSCH22012053123500456131.cdr
/tmp/fr/itc/ICTEMSC52012053123250056109.cdr
/tmp/fr/itc/mov.sh
/tmp/fr/itc/test
/tmp/fr/xi-2009-latest.tar.gz
/tmp/fr/nagios-3.3.1.tar.gz
/tmp/fr/mov.ksh
/tmp/fr/daily_check
/tmp/fr/netbandwidth.pl
/tmp/fr/NRPE-2.12.depot
/tmp/fr/HP-UX_11.31_IA_PA_UtilProvider_A.01.08.07.00_HP-UX_B.11.31_IA_PA.depot

but the last line of the script is:

Code:
ls -lrt $(< file_lst) /tmp/fr

# 14  
Old 03-18-2013
can you explain me what are you trying to do at the last line? Smilie
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