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Old 03-25-2013
Process previous days file
Hi,

i've a scenario where i need to unizp the previous day files based on the no of days given as input.

EX: if my no of days are 5 i need to go to archive dir and pull last 5 days files from currentday -1 .

Please help with this shell script.

Regards,
sandeep.
# 2  
Old 03-25-2013
You didn't mention what OS & SHELL you are using? Also can you show us what have you tried so far?
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Old 03-25-2013
Linux ,bash

The task is to get the archive files based on the no of days given as input which is a parameter and the format of the date is YYYYMMDD

so it looks like YYYYMMDD - $no of days...

20130325 - 5 days
i need to exract all the five days archive files from archive dir..

one option im trying yo use SQL..
# 4  
Old 03-25-2013
You can use find command with -newer option:

1. Touch a temporary file, specify time-stamp instead of current time:
Code:
touch -t 201303250000 /tmp/stamp$$

2. Use find to search files newer than temporary file created:
Code:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.gz" -newer /tmp/stamp$$

# 5  
Old 03-25-2013
so if i use -maxdepth 5 then will i get the last 5 days of the current date??
# 6  
Old 03-25-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by sandeep karna
so if i use -maxdepth 5 then will i get the last 5 days of the current date??
No, option -maxdepth levels is used to specify how many levels of directories you want to descend for searching files.

So -maxdepth 1 means the search is performed only on current directory.

You have to change the temporary file time-stamp accordingly to search the files as per your desired range.

Check find manual pages for further reference:
Code:
man find

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