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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to find the most recent files by their name from an X repertoire.
The problem is that the name of the files is of type:
POWERL10_20151203000.xml
POWERL10_20151203001.xml
POWERL10_20151202000.xml
FIXED VALUE_DATENNN.xml
NNN = Sequential number
I would need to recover the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: verita
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Experts...
dir of FTP will list all the files in the directory. Is there any command or option of dir that will give me the most recent file only?
Since I couldn't find any such thing, I thought of creating a log file (of FTP results) and work on this log file to determine the most recent... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: juzz4fun
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
Under my root directory there are many sub-directories which contains log file for every day of running.
How can I find , in one command only, the recent log file in each sub-directory?
For example, If I run the following:
find . -name "exp_prod_*_*_yes_*_.log" -exec ls -ltr {} \;... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: nir_s
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I wish to get the most recent file from a dir which contains a specific string.
for example, in a dir sample/ , i have 3 files
file1.txt -- contains 'good'
file2.txt -- contains 'good'
file3.txt-- contans 'hello'
I want to search for the recent file (that is file2.txt) which... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: little_wonder
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to find the most recent file containing ' NORESETLOGS"
I'm already here but, how to sort this now in a correct way ?
By the way, my version of find does not know about 'fprint'
find . -type f -exec grep -i " NORESETLOGS" {} \; -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -vi " RESETLOGS" (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: plelie2
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi people,
Please some help over here.
I have logs in a directory, in which I need to get the most recent file in order to put it within other command.
The format of the files are
loadfiles20090308094339_41
loadfiles20090308094418_42
loadfiles20090308095457_43... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cgkmal
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have files coming in every day with that days timestamp like:
nameyyyymmddhhmmss.ext.
I need the most recent one and so i am using
cat `ls -t name*|head -1 ` > temp
i am sorting the files in the decending order and am copying the most recent one into a temp file.
It works at times... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: anujairaj
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8. AIX
I need to change the name of a file within a script. For example I have two files. The first named scrnslc_0001 and the second scrnslc_0002. I want to change the name of the second to scrnslc_out. The appended number will change, and I won't know the file name in advance. If there were only one... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: warpmail
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear All,
I'm trying to write a script that searches thru a directory looking for a most recent file and then scp that file.
I have the scp working, but I don't know how to browse the directory and select the most recent file.
The file name includes a date & time stamp (e.g.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: duncan_glover
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
OK, I know next to nothing about scripting in unix, and at the moment I don't have access to a unix environment...
We have an application that generates a text report file which is later printed. The format is this:
bbtptcYYMMDDSSCC.txt (year/month/day/second/check digit)
I want a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: josborn777
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