Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to list down the files between two timestamp. But I can not use newer or newermt command as it doesn't support these tokens.


Is there any other way to achieve this? Else I have to write too much of coding .

Input

Code:

 Dec 01 02:02
 Dec 02 05:07

What operating system are you using?

Code:

uname -a

If you have Perl installed in your system, then:

Code:

ls -1 | perl -lne 'BEGIN {use Time::Local;
                         $t1 = timelocal(0,2,2,1,11,2015); # Start time = "1-Dec-2015 02:02:00"
                         $t2 = timelocal(0,7,5,2,11,2015); # End time   = "2-Dec-2015 05:07:00"
                         printf("List of files modified between %s and %s\n", scalar localtime $t1, scalar localtime $t2);
                     }
                     @x = stat($_);
                     if ($t1 <= $x[9] and  $x[9] <= $t2) {
                         printf("%s| %s\n", scalar localtime $x[9], $_);
                     }'

Thanks for the reply. But I don't know perl and I want it in shell. Is there any utility for this?

No worries; in that case someone else should be able to help you out.

I assume that the newer and newermt that you are talking about are primaries for the find utility. So, one might assume that you're trying to print the names of files that have a modification timestamp that is greater than or equal to the first time you've shown us and less than the second time you've shown us. By saying that you can't use those tokens with newer and newermt, we can make lots of unwarranted assumptions about why you can't convert those strings into values that could be used with touch to create start and stop files that could be used with the find primary -newer.

I see that you have not answered Yoda's question. So, we can make a lot more guesses that might or might not work in your environment.

Instead of having us make lots of wild assumptions, please give us a clear description of your environment (operating system and shell; including versions of both), where these date strings are coming from (and why you can't use the information provided by those strings to create temporary files with those timestamps using the touch utility and using:

Code:

find path -newer temp_start_file ! -newer temp_end_file

to get what you need), and why the perl utility isn't a utility you can use in a shell script.

Are you sure? By using Perl you pretty much make it more portable, when it comes to dealing with date and time conversions.

Otherwise, you have to let people know what's the operating system you are using and the shell you are intending to invoke.