I have a directory which contains files with different kinds of extensions .everyday a file with .log gets added to it .i want to extract the file with .log extension which is created with todays date .
thanks in advance
I have a directory which contains files with different kinds of extensions .everyday a file with .log gets added to it .i want to extract the file with .log extension which is created with todays date .
thanks in advance
I hope the below command will help you
ls | grep -e "`date "+%Y%m%d"`" | grep ".log"
If the date (in format YYYYMMDD) is not part of the log file then,
find . -mtime -1 -name "*.log"
thanks for the reply vijay