echo "\nplease enter the day\c"

read day
(I am entering 8)

echo "\nplease enter the Month\c"

read month
(I am entering Aug)


ls -lrt *dagknbb*US |awk '$7==$day'|awk '$7=="$month"

nothing is happening it cant able to select particular
day and month file

Is this comparison Incorrect

awk '$7==$day'

I am not getting any errors but the code is not working

please help...................

Please use [code][/code] tags around your code, to preserve formatting and to improve readability.


Shell variables are NOT awk variables! They may look the same at first glance, but awk uses a separate variable system with a slightly different syntax.

You have to import the bash variable into an awk variable before you can use it. (It's also possible by using careful quoting of the awk expression to allow shell expansion, but it's usually better to import it.

Notice first that the values of awk variables are read with the name only. Adding "$" to it references the field of the input text, if the variable contains a number.

Also, you can usually do everything you want in a single awk instance. It's a full scripting language of its own, after all: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

(BTW, why are you testing the same field for both day and month?)

Finally, however, parsing ls isn't recommended. Perhaps if you explain what your real goal is, we could help you develop a better way to do what you want.

Thanks david for your suggestion but my script is on solaris and i am getting

awk:syntax error near line 1
awk:bailing out error near line 1

can you please suggest the same above code in SOLARIS

hi david , my goal is based on the key board input i have to get the list of files of specific pattern and date and copy the same to say /files/jjj/ab directory

file pattern
date

should be input from the key board

It always good to point out when you're using Unix-based applications. Since this is a Linux forum we tend to assume gnu utilities by default. I suppose you aren't using bash either, then?

Could you please post some specific examples of the directory structures, names, and dates that you want to locate?

It seems to me that you'd be better off with a simple find command instead. Just plug the variable into the find regex to get the matches you want. Something like this, perhaps?

Just a comment about awk and Solaris.
On Solaris 10 and older, /usr/bin/awk is a legacy binary that doesn't comply with standard awk. It is there only to maintain compatibility with old scripts that might still stay around.
For new scripts, you should always use /usr/bin/nawk (for new awk) instead. nawk is faster and complies with POSIX awk. For pure standard compliance, you might also use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk. If you are using Gnu specific extensions, you should instead run something like /usr/sfw/bin/gawk, /usr/local/bin/gawk, /opt/csw/bin/gawk, /usr/gnu/awk, or somewhere else depending on the Solaris release and optional packages possibly installed.

Newer version of Solaris have at least bash 3.2+. So why not use the shell?

There is nothing requiring bash in your sample code. On Solaris, the old Bourne shell, the Posix compliant one and ksh will all also run it

yes, that's true, for my sample that is.

i want to search pattern along with that the file name pattern i am searching should belong to specific date i.e for example Aug 15 it should copy only august 15th files not other month 15 th files

this is what i am doing
echo "\nplease enter the Pattern\c"
read FilePattern
(I will enter *hjhjhjh*)

echo "\nplease enter REgion\c"
read region
( i will enter KR
)

echo "\nplease enter the day\c"
read day
(I am entering 8)

echo "\nplease enter the Month\c"
read month
(I am entering Aug)

then i have to find this $FilePattern$region which will be in the file name(under directory say /jil/jj)

i.e.
*hjhjhjh*KR and copy this to another directory /jkj/dir

by the way i want only specfic date files i.e if in enter $day as 10 and $month as Aug
it should copy only Aug 10 th files

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please help me

I would like to thank David for help........