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Hi All.,

1 ssssss C2052EX 15 Mar 30 19:01
1 aaaaa C2052EX 15 Apr 3 10:12
1 ccccc C2052EX 15 Apr 4 09:28

i have files arriving like above.
i am using the following to extract files arriving today ( say apr4)

todaydat=`date | cut -c5-10`
find DIR_PATH/START.*.*.*.ctl* -exec ls -ltr {} \; -mmin +200 | grep "$todaydat" | awk -F" " {'print $9'}

now i am trying to extract files arriving today ( say apr 4) and y'day ( say apr 3)
can anyone please give me any suggestions.

thanks
pavi

Hello

i am using these ( from man pages in Unix)
yesterdaydat=date -d "yesterday" | cut -c5-10
Apr 3

todaydat=date | cut -c5-10
Apr 4

now i am trying to use the output of both the above commands to extract the files arrived today and yesterday. can you please give me a suggestion;

find DIR_PATH/START.*.*.*.ctl* -exec ls -ltr {} \; -mmin +200 | grep
"$todaydat" | awk -F" " {'print $9'}

thanks a bunch
pavi