ls -l | grep $date (failing)

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Example file list

> ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x   1 .......  ......      1707 Feb  5  2004 file1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 .......  ......       175 Jan 21  2005 file2
-rwxr-xr-x   1 .......  ......        95 Apr  1 16:15 file3

The Script

#!/bin/ksh

# date variables
start_date_Y=`date +%Y`   # year  (ie: 1998, 2005)
start_date_b=`date +%b`   # month (ie: Jun, Jul)
start_date_d=`date +%d`   # day   (ie: 09, 25)

# format the date value for day for `ls -al | grep <date>`
# ex: converts day value of '01' into ' 1' or '09' to ' 9', etc)
typeset -L1 get_first_char  # used to get first character of `date +%d`
typeset -R1 get_second_char # used to get second character of `date +%d`
get_first_char="$date_d"
get_second_char="$date_d"
if (( get_first_char==0 )); then
    date_d=" ${get_second_char}"
fi

ls -l | grep "$date_b $date_d"

I've read somewhere on this forum that when doing an ls -l command, files that are older than 6 months will be displayed (Mmm dd yyyy) as opposed to (Mmm dd hh:ss). My script doesn't account for this.

Can anyone suggest the workaround for this?

2

file times are a pain in the butt.

try using the script attached below like this:

# find files from january 01 2005
for file in `ls -1`
do
      filetime.pl $file | grep -q 20050101
      if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
             echo "$file"
      fi
done

#!/usr/bin/perl
# point the above to the locaction of perl on your system
#^ PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
#^ -------------------
#^ This program prints the modification times of files.
#^ It uses the following format:  inodetime.pl filename
#^ It will accept:  inodetime.pl filename1 filename2 filename3
#^                  inodetime.pl /tmp/file*
#^ The format of the output is: YYYYMMDDhhmmss filename
#^ example:
#^           $ filetime.pl /tmp/t*
#^           19961115105425 /tmp/test.sql 
#^           19970116113616 /tmp/tststat.pl 
#^ 

############################################
# Get the (next) input from the command line 
############################################
while ($curfile = $ARGV[0])
{
   #################################################
   # Do following code block only if $curfile exists
   #################################################
   if (-e $curfile)
   {

      # stat structure into variables

      ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
      $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
      = stat("$curfile");

      # time structure into variables

      local($sec,$min,$hr,$day,$mon,$yr,$wday,@dntcare) = localtime($mtime);
      $yr = ($yr>=70) ? $yr+1900 : $yr+2000;
      $yr="$yr";
      $mon = (++$mon < 10) ? "0$mon" : "$mon";
      $day = ($day < 10) ? "0$day" : "$day";
      $hr  = ($hr < 10) ? "0$hr" : "$hr";
      $min = ($min < 10) ? "0$min" : "$min";
      $sec = ($sec < 10) ? "0$sec" : "$sec";

      # Rearrange in the YYYYMMDDhhmmss format and assign to $dte variable

      $dte = join('',$yr,$mon,$day,$hr,$min,$sec);

      # Print modification date and filename

      print ("$dte\n");
      }

   # Shift to next position in command line
   shift (@ARGV);
}