Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm using AutoSys as scheduler for my application.

I maintain a calendar in AutoSys which specifies when a job should run. A unix shell scripts runs on the days spceified by calendar and processes incoming files.
These incoming files contain dates embedded in the filenames.

My job needs to pick up the files whose date is same as the job run date.(Please note that run date may not be current date on few occasions and hence I cannot go by this method)

So, I want to read the calendar for the date and then look up for the filename containing that date.

Can anyone suggest if this is possible?


Thanks

You wanted the file name which has got the date as that of the current date/job run date.Am i right?

What is the format of the embedded date in the file name? Can we not get the current date and list all files that has the current date in it using find commands name pattern expression?

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan.

Yes, In normal scenarios, my job run date is same as current date.
In such cases, I'm looking up for files which have current date in file name.

But, there are certain situations where my job preprocessing takes longer time and eventually current date is different than the job start date (run date).

If I go with current date, I may end up picking up wrong files.

That is the reason I was looking if any common possible appraoch is present.

I understand that I can look for files as soon as the job starts so that current date remains same. But, wanted to know if there is any way to query calendar and get date.