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Old 06-11-2014
Find and grep issue
Hi,

I need to find all file in a directory dated yesterday and not today and then zip them into a zip file @ new location without affecting [touching] the existing files.

My OS : SunOS Sparc 5.10
Last edited by mohtashims; 06-11-2014 at 01:53 PM..
# 2  
Old 06-11-2014
What have you tried?

What isn't working in what you have tried?
# 3  
Old 06-11-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
What have you tried?

What isn't working in what you have tried?

I tried all options in here but could not make it.

Help - compress file one day ago

with mtime -1 it yields all files back 24 hrs including today's which is not what i need.

Also, the gzip option zips the current files while i am looking for the files to be unaffected and get copied to a zip in a separate location all together.

With some commands -daystart does not work for me.
# 4  
Old 06-12-2014
This can be tricky in Solaris I'd suggest using a perl program to get the required date strings

Save this as gettime.pl:

Code:
#!/bin/perl
use POSIX; print strftime('%Y%m%d0000.00', localtime(time() - $ARGV[0]));

Then you can use this script to find and tar+gzip your files:

Code:
FOLDER=/path/to/files
ZIPFOLDER=/path/for/zip/files
YESTERDAY=$(./gettime.pl 86400)
TODAY=$(./gettime.pl 0)
touch -t $YESTERDAY /tmp/yesterday.$$
touch -t $TODAY /tmp/today.$$

FILES=$(find "$FOLDER" -type f -newer /tmp/yesterday.$$ ! -newer /tmp/today.$$ -print)
if [ -n "$FILES" ]
then
    tar -cf "$ZIPFOLDER/zip_$(date +%Y%m%d.tar)" $FILES
    gzip "$ZIPFOLDER/zip_$(date +%Y%m%d.tar)"
fi

rm /tmp/yesterday.$$
rm /tmp/today.$$

Just be careful running this very close to midnight - it may turn back into a pumpkin Smilie
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# 5  
Old 06-12-2014
Could you experiment with -mtime +0 too? Something like this:-
Code:
find . -type f -mtime +0 -mtime -1


Robin
# 6  
Old 06-13-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
Could you experiment with -mtime +0 too? Something like this:-
Code:
find . -type f -mtime +0 -mtime -1

Robin
That doesn't work, will never return anything.
-mtime works with fullday distances from today.
Code:
find . -type f -mtime +0 -mtime -2

is identical with
Code:
find . -type f -mtime 1

(The integer 1 is >0 and <2). Meaning files that are between 1 and 2 days old.
And
Code:
find . -type f -mtime 0 -ls

lists files that are between 0 and 1 day old.
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