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socalheel

04-28-2015 09:46 PM

sort based on timestamp?

i have the following output from an aws s3cmd list command

Code:

2015-04-29 02:11        0  filename1.jpg

2015-04-28 21:11 104048385  filename2.zip

2015-04-29 02:11        0  filename3.txt

2015-04-29 02:09  2431494  filename4.zip

2015-04-29 02:11        0  filename5.jpg

i need to only retrieve the newest file with a .zip extension (this case it's filename4.zip). i simply am stumped ... any help or ideas where i can start to solve this one?

edit: in addition to the year, month, day, i also need to take into account the hours, minutes, and seconds.

NevemTeve

04-28-2015 11:40 PM

Code:

grep '.zip$' | sort | tail -n1

syg00

04-29-2015 03:31 AM

You may find GNU sort is much more accommodating than you think. Check the "-g" option.

socalheel

04-29-2015 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NevemTeve (Post 5354844)

Code:

grep '.zip$' | sort | tail -n1

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00 (Post 5354935)

You may find GNU sort is much more accommodating than you think. Check the "-g" option.

omg that is so dang simple! i was thinking i was going to have to pass through the current date and time, calculate which file was closest to that date.

if i had a dollar for every time i was stumped by the simple things ...

thanks to you both!!!!!

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