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# 8  
Old 08-01-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
If you don't need awk, try this:
Code:
find . -daystart -mtime -2 ! -mtime -1 -ls

Will work in leap years and on month's first...
this is not working in unix.

---------- Post updated at 01:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:25 PM ----------

Thanks Cragun for the reply.
But, after reading your post i believe it will be a lengthy code as i will have care of the 1st day of a month, leap year and dealing with month in text format.

Is there any simpler way to list previous day files. RudiC suggested using find but it's not working out.
# 9  
Old 08-01-2012
What does not work in your unix? If your find lacks the -daystart option, try
Code:
touch -d'today 0:0' tmp1; touch -d'yesterday 0:0' tmp2; find . -newer tmp2 ! -newer tmp1 -ls; ...; rm tmp[12]

# 10  
Old 08-01-2012
Quote:
find . -mtime -1 -name "SystemOut_*"
The above is doing fine for me.
# 11  
Old 08-01-2012
Very well!
But this will find the files that were modified between now and now-24h, not 'last day's' files which would be between 'today midnight' and 'yesterday midnight'. If the former is what you need - brilliant!
Last edited by RudiC; 08-02-2012 at 12:07 PM..
# 12  
Old 08-02-2012
Although, i need the files between 'today midnight' and 'yesterday midnight' but in my case the file i want gets updated very frequently every day.So, my problem is getting resolved by using that command.

But you are right, what i am doing is wrong and i trying to do that by doing some modification in
Quote:
d=$(date | nawk '{ print $2,$3-1}')
ls -lrt SystemOut* | nawk -v d="${d}" '$0 ~ d {print $NF}'
 
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