LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY

TODAY=`date +"%b %d"`;ls -l | grep "$TODAY" | awk '{print $9}'

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By: williamruckman

2010-07-29 02:28:27

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LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY

Then pipe to 'xargs ls' for a familiar listing, possibly using find's -print0 and xarg's -0 options.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find -maxdepth 1 -mtime 0 -type f

adeverteuil · 2010-07-30 01:56:34 8
LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY

This version eliminates the grep before the awk, which is always good. It works for GNU core utils and ensures that the date output of ls matches the format in the pattern match, regardless of locale, etc. On BSD-based systems, you can easily eliminate both the grep and the awk: find . -maxdepth 1 -Btime -$(date +%kh%lm) -type f
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ls -l --time-style=+%Y-%m-%d | awk "/$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')/ {print \$7}"

unixmonkey11056 · 2010-07-29 05:30:29 10
LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY
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ls -la | grep $(date +%Y-%m-%d) | egrep -v -e '\.{1,2}' | sed "s/.*\:[0-9]\{2\} $.\+$$/\\1/g"

cicatriz · 2010-07-29 14:37:51 4

What Others Think

Just so you know, the +%b %d date format is not consistent across all systems. for example, mine is '+%F %R', which displays like "2010-07-28 15:35" Also, you may end up with a system that only has one time field, for example, just +%F, and not get any output at all, because awk would be printing nonexistent fields

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