C Shell Date

[SpongeBob1]

Hi,

I am trying to write a C Shell script that
1. Gets today's date
2. Finds a file ( eg. *.log) which is three days old.

Does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks.

 

[RobJordan]

I'm more familiar and prefer the k shell,
but this may work in the c shell.
As far as the date goes,
check out the man pages onn date.
You can alter the output to your liking.
here's an example
CUR_DATE=`/usr/bin/date "+%Y%m%d"`

You can use a find and/or grep combination
to find your file.

find /some/dir -mtime +2 -mtime -4
should find files that are three days old.

A better way may be to to calculate the date
three days ago and use a grep statement to find
that file.

Check out the faq faq80-953
At the bottom there is a script
to calculates yesterday's date
in a shell script. You should be
able to modify this to calculate
three days back.

Robert Robert G. Jordan
Unix Sys Admin
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois U.S.A.

http://www.InYourMind.com

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[SpongeBob1]

Thanks for your reply Robert.