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Executing a program according to the last modified date
I need to write a script which would execute some executables in a directory according to the last modified date. The oldest should run first. How do I do it?
This is what I have done so far
for f ...
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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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Create sub-directories and organize files by date
I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example;
-rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 ...
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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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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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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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show the year while listing files in the current directory
I am working on a red hat server
I want to list the files in a way where the year when each was file created would appear in the Date
how is that possible ?
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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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linux + add 10 days to date and get new virtual date
I have Linux ( RH 5.3) machine
I need to add/calculate 10 days plus date so then I will get new date (expiration date))
for example
# date
Sun Sep 11 07:59:16 IST 2012
So I need to get
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UNIX move file name with sysdate
I want to make a script in Unix in which I have to move a file daily to a specific path.
In order to avoid overlapping of the file, I want the file name along with the date.
e.g. mv filename ...
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How can I delete all files in a folder that haven't been accessed in a certain amount of time?
I'd like to run a nightly cron job that deletes all the files in a folder that haven't been accessed in a week or more. What is the most efficient way to do this in bash?
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date - years prior to 1901 are treated as invalid
I have date (GNU coreutils) 7.1 installed on my system.
If I try to check dates prior to 14-Dec-1901, I get an "invalid date" error. For example,
$ date -d 1901-12-13
date: invalid date ...
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How to get elapsed time from two “text based” dates
I would like to know if there is a way to calculate the difference between two times in bash. I have two fields that are extracted from a log file:
Start time: Feb 12 10:02:10
End time: Feb 12 ...
