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akhil.mud

12-13-2007 05:55 AM

grep help

i have given a command
da=`date|cut -d" " -f2,3`

which gives output like
Dec 13
now i want to use this in grep command like
ls -ltr / |grep $da
but it has given me error that grep 13 no such file or directory

can someone help in this,is there any switch which can be used with
grep

radoulov

12-13-2007 06:01 AM

Code:

da="$(date +"%b %d")"

ls -ltr /|grep -F "$da"

or:

Code:

ls -ltr /|grep -F "$(date +"%b %d")"

ghostdog74

12-13-2007 06:11 AM

GNU awk

Code:

ls -l| awk '$6" "$7 == strftime("%b %d")'

akhil.mud

12-13-2007 06:23 AM

thanks!!!!! it solved my problem

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