I'm pretty new in UNIX.....


I receive a file every night, the file is in format myfileYYYYMMDD_HHMM The problem is that the file sometimes arrives before midnight, so it has different date, how can I FIND files between let's say 11pm and 6am?

I was thinking about FIND command, but FIND command has all parameters in days.... (I use SUN and KORN).

thanks


jiri

No need to 'find' the time if you follow this procedure:

1) File is received in filein directory.
2) Process any file in filein, whith the specified format.
3) Move processed file to files_processed directory.

This way any file found in filein directory you know it is not processed! -- therefore no need to check for any 'time'.

You could pattern match in perl, sed.

Since this would be a very simple operation and u dont need to go for complex solutions like perl or something, simply use awk and you should be fine.