Hi all,

I am trying to list files with todays date only. I can not get sed to add the extra blank when finding single digit dates 1-9. i.e, Solaris list files with dates:

"Dec 9" (no quotes)
my initial date commands return "Dec 09", hence I am using sed, but my script keep returning Dec 9

I need two blank spaces before 9

Any ideas why? how to fix it?

thanks

#!/usr/bin/ksh
TIME=`/usr/bin/date '+%h %d' | sed 's/ 0/ /'`

ls -l /mydir | grep "$TIME"

Maybe I'm missing something, but just put an extra space in:

TIME=`/usr/bin/date '+%h %d' | sed 's/ 0/ /'`

to

# there needs to be two spaces
# between the last two the last / and /
TIME=`/usr/bin/date '+%h %d' | sed 's/ 0/ /'`

Also, I think you can save yourself the trouble of using the grep:

ls -l /mydir | grep "$TIME"

Change it to:

ls -l mydir/*"$TIME"

if you just want to find files with todays date only, can also use the find command
find <path> -type f -mtime -1 -ls