Wednesday 27 January 2010

Reading Oracle AQ JMS Text XML

Placeholder link to a great and very useful article on Oracle AQ JMS

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Listing today's files in a directory without using find

Had an issue today where I needed to get the today's log files from a Unix directory but couldn't use find. Normally I could use the time function in find to do this as follows where . is the directory to search from (. is the current directory):
find . -mtime +0
However the only way I could get the date for the files was by using ls -al and then removing all the extra data to leave just the filename.

The following script takes an argument of the directory you want to list all the files with the current date:

#!/bin/sh
die () {
echo >&2 "$@"
exit 1
}

[ "$#" -eq 1 ] || die "target directory argument required, $# provided"

target=$1
myvar=`date "+%h %d"`

for file in `ls -al $target | grep "$myvar" | sed 's/[-drwx]* *[0-9] *[a-zA-Z0-9]* *[a-zA-Z0-9]* *[0-9]* *[a-zA-Z]* [0-9]* *[0-9]*:[0-9]* *\.*//'`; do
echo $file
done