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Old 11-18-2019
Searching for a files based on current date directory

Hi All,

I've been trying to do some recursive searching but not been very successful. Can someone please help.
Scenario:
I have directory structure
Code:
/dir1/dir2/dir3/
2019/
11/
17
18
19
20

so what I want to do is run a script and as its 2019/11/18/ today it would go and only search on that folder and give me number of files init and tomorrow it would search in 2019/11/19/

Last edited by vbe; 11-18-2019 at 12:54 PM.. Reason: code tags use [] not <>
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Old 11-18-2019
How about
Code:
echo /dir1/dir2/dir3/$(date +"%Y/%m/%d")/init* | wc -w

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Old 11-19-2019
@RudiC Thanks for the reply. that's what I used, I scripted it something like:

Code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
now=$(date)
list_dir=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d')
echo /dir1/dir2/dir3/${list_dir}
and output = /dir1/dir2/dir3/2019/11/19/

The idea was to run this and get me the time of how often a file is put in that directory so I can measure latency. So I have files in there and running my script I get a time return of the last file in the /dir1/dir2/dir3/2019/11/19/ location
Code:
2019-11-19+11:36:40.7135938570

How can I do a time diff between above output and systime and then depending on difference it shows me different messages.

Last edited by israr75; 11-19-2019 at 05:21 AM..
# 4  
Old 11-19-2019
You don't say what system you are running this on. Assuming a Linux system and/or Gnu Date you could use something like:
Quote:
#!/bin/bash
now=$(date)
list_dir=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d')
echo /dir1/dir2/dir3/${list_dir}
now_in_secs=$(date +%s)
dir_in_secs=$(date +%s --reference=/dir1/dir2/dir3/${list_dir})
printf "directory %s was last added to or removed from %d seconds ago\n" ${list_dir} $((now_in_secs - dir_in_secs))
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