Copying Files

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,
I'm trying to list some files from my log directory

and files are like this
log.20110302_20.gz
log.20110302_21.gz
log.20110302_22.gz
log.20110302_23.gz
log.20110303_00.gz
log.20110303_01.gz
log.20110303_02.gz
............
log.20110311_22.gz
log.20110311_23.gz
log.20110312_00.gz
log.20110312_01.gz
log.20110312_02.gz
log.20110312_03.gz
log.20110312_04.gz
log.20110312_05.gz

Here 20110312 for the above 2011-Year 03-Month 12-date

so i want ot display files from 3rd march to 11 march

And i used command like this
ls -lrt [log.20110303*-log.20110312*]

But its displays error

Kindly help on this

Regards
Thelak

2 
ls *.gz | awk -F'[.|_]' '{if($2>=20110303 && $2<=20110312)print $0}'

you can define your own ls command.

3

Hi sk, you can simplify your command:

ls *.gz | awk -F'[.|_]' '$2>=20110303 && $2<=20110312'