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Old 10-24-2008
ls -l all files created between two times
solaris 8 and solaris 10
c shell

I have a /local/tmp/ directory that is cleared out every day and files are created in it all day long from 0000 - 2359 (24 hour clock) A new file is created in this directory every couple of minutes.

I want a script "rrtime" that takes two arguments hhmm1 and hhmm2 and lists all files in /local/tmp/ that were created between hhmm1 and hhmm2... the times are given in 24hour format, for example 1500 - 1600
Sounds easy enough? If somebody could give me an example script, even one that is SIMILAR to what I need here....that would be awesome!
thank you so much!

example usage: rrtime 1500 1600
(this would list all files in /local/tmp/ created between 15:00 and 16:00)
# 2  
Old 10-24-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Here is a start to think about (one approach)
This snippet will give you the last modification time for a file, in this case file305.

Code:
> stat -c%y file305
2008-10-24 12:35:18.183724000 -0700
> stat -c%y file305 | cut -d" " -f2
12:35:18.183724000
> stat -c%y file305 | cut -d" " -f2 | cut -d"." -f1
12:35:18

I think you will want to create a for loop, to cycle through filenames in your specific directory. Then, on each file, execute with something like the above code.
# 3  
Old 10-24-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver To help find files
This will find files for today:
Code:
> ls -l | grep "`date | cut -d" " -f2-3`"
drwxrwx---  2 xxx dp 1536 Oct 24 12:35 ./
drwxrwx--- 99 xxx dp 3072 Oct 24 08:48 ../
-rw-rw----  1 xxx dp  843 Oct 24 07:36 file301
-rw-rw----  1 xxx dp  141 Oct 24 12:35 file305
-rw-rw----  1 xxx dp    4 Oct 24 12:35 file305x

And this will strip out to just files (not directories) and only have the names:
Code:
> ls -l | grep "`date | cut -d" " -f2-3`" | grep "^-" | awk '{print $9}'
file301
file305
file305x

So, combine the logic to list out today's files, with my previous post on determining the exact time, and you should be in business.
# 4  
Old 10-24-2008
joeyg, thank you for the help...you gave me great help on listing today's files in the 2nd post...and the first post the stat command looks like it will also be of great help....I was hoping for a little more help on creating the exact logic loop (or an example) that will list only the files created between the two times....somehow create an IF loop that looks at the output of this stat command and compares it with hhmm1 and hhmm2 if it is greater than hhmm1 and less than hhmm2 then list the file........in any case, thanks again!!
# 5  
Old 10-25-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver There are more elegant ways, but something to ponder...
Code:
rm filelist good_files
starttime=10:00:00
endtime=11:00:00

ls -l | grep "`date | cut -d" " -f2-3`" | grep "^-" | awk '{print $9}' >filelist
while read myfile
  do
  filetime=$(stat -c%y $myfile | cut -d" " -f2 | cut -d"." -f1)
# now check for the times in ranges (not sure about syntax)
  if [ $filetime -ge $starttime ] && [ $filetime -le $endtime ]
     then
     echo "Good file"
     echo $myfile >>good_files
  fi
done <filelist  
# show the good_files
cat good_files

You can try the above script. Not sure of all the syntax - have not tried out the coding. But, should be something to start with.
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