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How to save current day files only?

i want to save current day file daily
for this is am using below command.

Code:

cp -p $(ls -lrt | grep "Apr 15" | awk '{print $9}'

in order to script this part, i am saving date output in a file using below command

Code:

date | awk '{print $2,$3}' >>t1

thru below command i want to list the file of specific date but below command is listing all the content.

Code:

 
ls -lrt | grep -w "$t1"

o/p

Code:

 
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     system          256 Mar 21 2012  lost+found
-rw-r-----    1 root     system           25 Aug 05 2013  cfgvg.out
srwxrwxrwx    1 root     system            0 Aug 05 2013  dpi_socket
-rw-r-----    1 root     system          102 Apr 15 01:17 loc_file
-rw-r-----    1 root     system            0 Apr 15 01:17 fget_config_lock
-rw-r-----    1 drsadm   drsadm            7 Apr 15 16:59 t1

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What you are doing is cumbersome - so, consider using the find command.

To directly answer what I can:
This gives the most recent file name only , assuming you have already executed a cd command to be in the right directory --

Code:

t1=$(ls -rt filename* | tail -1)
#
t1=$(ls -rt | tail -1)

I do not understand your code very well - so this is the only contribution I can make at this point.

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ON second thought - please tell us in words what you want - not how you think it should be coded. That would help a lot, I think.

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Trying to understand and optimize your approach - do consider jim mcnamaras comments, though - I think this might do what you want:

Code:

ls -l | awk -vDT=$(date +"%b %d") '$0 ~ DT {print $9}'

Please note that
- no grep is needed when you're using awk anyhow
- no awk for date is needed, use its format option
- ls does not need the -rt options i your case

The error in post#1 is, you're writing the results to a file but try to expand a variable of the same name which is empty.

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first of all i am very sorry if i was not able to explain my question
here i am again explaining it.
My motive is to save all the file which are generating daily.
as i do not want to do this manually i am trying to write a script for this.
Now the command which i am using here, to list current day file is mentioned as below. asuming current date is 10th May 2015

Code:

 
cp -p $(ls -lrt | grep "May 10" | awk '{print $9}'  ---1

using above command i can list all the files of 10th May.
now to script this here i am saving date in file using below command

Code:

 
date | awk '{print $2,$3}' >t1 ---2

now here i am checking if it is working or not for this here i am using below command

Code:

 
ls -lrt | grep -w "$t1" ---3

but what i see here is that it is listing all the files.

Code:

 
-rwxrwxrwx 1 adm adm 654 Jun 15 2010 collect
-rw-r----- 1 adm adm 1 May 10 20:15 a
-rw-r----- 1 adm adm 1 May 10 20:15 b
-rw-r----- 1 adm adm 7 May 10 20:15 t1

what i expect from the command to do is to list only 10th may file.

here what i am expecting from command No.3 is, to work similar to the below command
ls -lrt | grep "May 10"

I hope this time i am able to explain my concern.
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---------- Post updated at 08:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:36 PM ----------

Hi Rudic

i tried your command but i am getting below error

Code:

 
awk: 0602-533 Cannot find or open file $0 ~ DT {print $9}.
 The source line number is 1.

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The assignment is for awk - not a shell assignment. Therefore needs quotes to prevent word splitting.

Code:

ls -l | awk -vDT="$(date +"%b %d")" '$0 ~ DT {print $9}'

Or use this precise one

Code:

ls -l | awk -vD=$(date +%b) -vT=$(date +%d) '$6==D && $7==T {print $9}'

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Code:

ls -l | awk -vDT="$(date +"%b %d")" '$0 ~ DT {print $9}'

can you please explain me the use of

Code:

 -vDT

and

Code:

 ~ DT

option in above command
i tried to figure out but didn't get exact one over net .

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