Hello.,

1 gggggg C2052EX 15 Mar 31 13:03
1 rrrrrr C2052EX 15 Apr 3 12:00

todaydat=`date | awk -F" " '{print $2" "$3 }'` (# the output must be like Apr 3, or March 31 or Oct 8 etc)

find DIR_PATH/START.*.*.*.ctl* -exec ls -ltr {} \; -mmin +200 | grep "$todaydat" | awk -F" " {'print $9'}

I have a peculiar spacing problem.when i used the above find comman on march 31st it worked fine. but on april 3 it did not work.

the reason: Mar 31
Apr 3
the space between r and 3 in Marc 31 is one
but the space between r and 3 in Apr 3 is two.

so the same find command which worked on march 31st is not working on april 3rd.

can anyone please give me a suggestion to solve this.

thanks
pavi

delete the space with sed

I think I misread what you want. I think you want the extra space i.e.

thanks a lot guys..
it is working fine for me now.

thanks once again
pavi