Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash
SHARED=/somesharedfiledir
m_jobstart=$SHARED/dummyfile_i_timestamped
apply_cmd_ls='ls -rat '$SHARED'/batches/var/log/ | tail -1'
apply_cmd_find='find '$SHARED'/batches/var/log/ -type f \( -name "*mainlog.log" \)-newer '$m_jobstart
function findlog {
 unset reply
 unset result
 unset apply
 reply=apply_cmd_$1
 result=`${!reply}`
 echo "result: "$result
}
findlog 'find'

#!/bin/bash
SHARED=/somesharedfiledir
m_jobstart=$SHARED/dummyfile_i_timestamped
apply_cmd_ls='ls -rat '$SHARED'/batches/var/log/ | tail -1'
apply_cmd_find='find '$SHARED'/%B/var/log/ -type f %f -newer '$m_jobstart
function findlog {
 unset reply
 unset result
 unset apply
 # using $3 as a filter here
 reply=apply_$1
 apply=`echo ${!reply} | sed "s#%B#${2}#g;s#%f#${3}#g"`
 result=`$apply`
 echo "result: "$result
}
findlog 'find' 'batch1' '-name *mainlog.log'
findlog 'find' 'batch2' '-name *mainlog.log'
findlog 'find' 'batch3' '\( -name *mainlog.log ! -name *LB71*.log \)'
findlog 'ls' 'batch4'

#!/bin/bash
SHARED=/somesharedfiledir
m_jobstart=$SHARED/dummyfile_i_timestamped


findlog() {
 local reply result apply

 case "$1" in
     ls) result=$(ls -rat "$SHARED/batches/var/log/" | tail -1)
         ;;
   find) result=$(find "$SHARED/$2/var/log" -type f "$3" -newer "$m_jobstart")
         ;;
 esac
}