Empty Variable

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I am trying to assign list of files that created that day to a variable 'filename'
filename=`ls -ltr |grep "Mar 6" | awk '{print$9}'`

If there are no files created that day, my script just hangs, i need help with some login here.

i am also trying to figure out a way to look for files that are created , say for ex: yesterday Mar 9. I am trying with

DATE=`date +%b`
DATE1=`date +%d`
tem="$DATE $DATE1"

If I give one more space it won't reconize date. Need help

Thanks,
Gundu

2

You need to post more of your script. I dont see why the code you posted would make the script hang.

3

OK , the 1st part is fixed, i tried with string not null, and it is OK.

My next and big problem is DATE

When I do ls -ltr , I get

-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxx xxxx 2428 Mar 9 16:13 auditabcd

I am trying to look for the files belong to current date. I declared as :

DATE=`date +%b`
DATE1=`date +%d`
tem="$DATE $DATE1"

If I give one more space it won't reconize date. Need help

Thanks,
Gundu

4

$ date
date
Thu Mar 9 17:13:57 EST 2005

$ date +%d
09