Problem with passing date argument to grep

[Rootberry]

I am trying to create an alias command and am having issues. I want a one line command so that I can do a longlisting and grep for todays date and date. So if I do a ll | grep `date "+%b %d"` I get can't open 26 which is todays date. But if I take off %d it pulles up everything in the directory in the month of Sep. I've tried using argument as seen below and get nothing, no errors. Any advice would be appreciated.

MyDate=$1
MyDate=`date '+%b %d'`
dir | grep `echo '$MyDate'`

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Rethink the entire process. Grep will match anywhere in the line so for example if "Sep" is part of the name of the file, it will match. You could play around will awk to split the fields out but I would really do this in Perl because ls's output varies depending upon the age of the file. You could also use find . -mtime 1, for example.

[spex · Accepted solution]

Hi,

# ls -l | grep " $(date '+%b %d') "

PCS

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# alias doit='X=`date "+%b %d"` ll|grep "${X}"'

...of course, you can think of better alias names than 'doit'...

Regards!

...JRF...

[Rootberry]

Thank you both ended up working great. I went ahead and used this one combined with my dir command. Made the command name dirg, short for dir grep :D


root[/usr/bin] >pg dir
ls -ail $* | more

root[/usr/bin] >pg dirg
TodaysDate=`date "+%b %d"`
dir | grep "${TodaysDate}"

[Rootberry]

See above