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# 8  
Old 07-02-2014
Thanks for your reply . I already added that exclusion in the command but the above mentioned command is not working.

---------- Post updated at 11:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:57 PM ----------

here is the command which I used.
Code:
find . !-type d -daystart -mtime $(( -1-$(date +%j)+$(date --date '01 Jun' +%j))) ! -mtime $(( -$(date +%j)+$(date --date '30 Jun' +%j)))

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-02-2014 at 10:58 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 9  
Old 07-02-2014
Again if something dosn't work please show the error returned eg:

Code:
-bash: !-type: event not found

Here you are missing a space between ! and -type
# 10  
Old 07-02-2014
sorry it is typo mistake ,I did that. Here is the command output

Code:
]find . ! -type d -daystart -mtime $(( -1-$(date +%j)+$(date --date '01 Jun' +%j))) ! -mtime $(( -$(date +%j)+$(date --date '30 Ju>
date: illegal option -- -
Usage: date [-u] [+Field Descriptors]
ksh:  -1-182+: more tokens expected

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More over in the example he is not considering the year. I want to consider year also
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-02-2014 at 10:58 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 11  
Old 07-02-2014
Your date command dosent support the --date option. The is a GNU extension and requires GNU date (aka linux).

You will probably have to revert to the touching of files method. You mentioned you don't have write access on the server, how about /tmp usually all users can write files there?
# 12  
Old 07-02-2014
Unable to SFTP files from remote server
Code:
sftp> binary
Invalid command.
sftp> touch -t 201407020000.01 start
Invalid command.
sftp> touch -t 201407022359.59 end
Invalid command.
sftp> find . ! -type d -newer start ! -newer end -exec mget {} \;
Invalid command.
sftp> rm start end
Couldn't delete file: No such file or directory
sftp> bye

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-02-2014 at 10:58 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 13  
Old 07-02-2014
Well, none of those are sftp commands. While sftp does have some commands with the same name & behaviour as unix commands, it's not a remote shell.

You'd need to use something like ssh (and maybe scp) instead.
# 14  
Old 07-02-2014
Quote:
If you were to consider the problem as a manual tasks, break it down into smaller chunks and logically work out the simplest steps you can.
What you haven't said is that you are connecting with sftp and have no other access.

I have a few questions:-
  • Can you ssh connect without a password?
  • Is an ssh session allowed to create files in /tmp?
If you can, then create a script on the remote server to do this:-
  1. Identify the files
  2. Use sftp to send the files from the remote server to your local server.
If you cannont sftp to your local server, you could code the script to:-
  1. Identify the files to be transferred
  2. Bundle them up with tar to a single file with a fixed name
  3. Disconnect the ssh session (i.e. exit the remote script)
  4. Connect with sftp from your local server and get (and delete) the fixed name file
  5. Extract the contents to your desired location


If you cannot ssh you will need three main steps (in my opinion):-
  1. Connect with sftp and get a file listing, capturing it to a local file and disconnect
  2. Locally process the list to decide which files to collect
  3. Connect again with sftp getting the files you have identified.
Does this get you any further?



Robin
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