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Linux listing files between two date without touch command
I need a command which will list the files between given date and time (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS - format) in to a text file.
I don want to use touch command as its creating permission issue.
I am new to this ...
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how to suppress bash octal number interpretation? (to be interpreted as decimal)
I have this:
date +"%H hours and %M minutes"
I use festival to say it up.. but it says like: "zero nine hours".. I want it to say "nine hours"!
but date always give me 09... so I wonder if bash ...
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How do I use an If-Else query based on the day of the week?
Problem: I need to check if today is Thursday and perform different actions based on the result of this condition. I tried two different approaches:
Getting the Day Name:
DAYOFWEEK=$(date +"%a")
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Displaying a specific date
I'm trying to display a specific date in Unix, using the date command, I can't figure out how to display a date other than today's date.
For example, if I was trying to display July 4, 2011 I use
$ ...
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1answer
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Good method to compare time?
I need to check for the current time and abort the script if it is not proper time of day I am supposed to run it. Also, if anyone else runs it, it should abort.
For example: I need my script to only ...
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1answer
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Outputting last modification date to another file?
I'm trying to read the number of lines in a file, and the last modification date of that file (e.g. if it was last modified Jan 18, 2013, it should output 2013-01-18), then append the data to the ...
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1answer
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Convert any Date format in unix
How can I convert any user inputted date into yyyy/mm/dd?
For example user can input date in one of the following formats 20120121 , 2012-01-21, 01/21/2012, 01/21/2012 etc.
But I need to convert any ...
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3answers
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Appending current date to filename
I'm trying to append the current date to the end of a file name, like what we see in logfiles:
TheFile.log.2012-02-11
I have been following this example and applied this to both a Unix and Linux ...
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Equivalent of date --reference in Solaris
The GNU implementation of the date command has a nice feature to show the date of the last modification of a reference file, and using the +FORMAT parameter it is easy to get the date in any format, ...
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2answers
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List files created on Sundays
How do I list/find all the files created on Sundays or Mondays?
How do I use the date parameter to display them?
Something like :
ls -f date + %a
or
find -type f | date +%A
or
find -type f ...
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Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created
I need a shell script which finds files which are created 1 hour before or 1 hour after a particular file (test.txt) was created.
If I go with find -newer, that means I'd have to create a temporary ...
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Parsing the output of date with sed
I am trying to replace the whitespaces in the output of date with '_' with no success.
$date
Fri Sep 14 14:10:04 EDT 2012
$ date | sed 's/ /_/'
Fri_Sep 14 14:10:24 EDT 2012
As you can see, the ...
2
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1answer
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How to insert a first column to many files + how to convert unix time to normal time
There are many-many files in a directory that has e.x.: the following content:
INPUT:
root 1324711901
sshd 1272725792
And I'm searching for a solution how to convert the content of the ...
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1answer
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Generate time as expression of 1/1000ths of the day
Completely new to bash and having trouble working out how to make the arithmetic work. I think this should be easy, it's just.. argh.
I want to express the time of day in terms of 1/1000ths (ie, ...
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3answers
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How to feed the results of date command into grep to filter results of another command
I need to use the result of a formatted date command (date +"%m/%d") as the grep filter to filter the results of another command that will display alerts on a system so that I only see alerts from the ...
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4answers
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How do I convert an epoch timestamp to a human readable format on the cli?
How do I convert an epoch timestamp to a human readable format on the cli? I think there's a way to do it with date but the syntax eludes me (other ways welcome).
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Tool in UNIX to subtract dates
Is there any tool in Solaris UNIX (so no GNU tool available) to subtract dates? I know that in Linux we have gawk that can subtract one date from another. But in Solaris the maximum we have is nawk ...
