find files for next day of the date entered

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

i have few files generated everyday with a date stamp. Sometimes it happens that if the files are generated late i.e after 00:00 hrs the date stamp will be of the next day.

example:

110123_file1
110123_file2
110123_file3
110124_file4

in the above example file4 is also for the previous day i.e 23rd(as per example) but its generated after 00:00hrs which results in date stamp for the current day.

i want to copy the files for a specific date to another location but in this case only 3 files will be copied and file4 will be copied for the next day run while file4 is for the previous day.

lets say these files are generated after 20:45hrs everyday. but if there is any delay also the files will be generated within 02:00hrs the next day. so i want to have a check wherein i input the date(23rd for the example above) and it should take all the files generated after 20:45hrs for the date entered even the file4 in this case.

all the files generated will have standard filename along with the date stamp.

2

what is your app or content of script if it there is?

3

The easiest way could be get your "limit" file and use find to do your stuff:

# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--   1 xxx     x              0 Nov 11 11:50 1.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 xxx     x               0 Nov 11 11:50 2.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 xxx     x               0 Nov 11 11:50 3.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 xxx     x               0 Nov 11 11:50 4.dat

#find . -type f -newer 1.dat 
./2.dat
./3.dat
./4.dat