Remove files from listing that are created/modified on Saturday

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I am not sure if it is possible.

I do ls -l, it gives all the files in the current directory. Is there a way to say list only files that weren't created/modified on Saturday's with shell command?

Gilles Quénot · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-17T19:14:56.907

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A way to do this :

$ LANG=C find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%p %AA\n' |
    awk '$NF=="Saturday"{next}{$NF=""}1'

I assume we don't print files for all Saturdays. This is or not what you expect.

edited Nov 17 '14 at 19:14

answered Nov 17 '14 at 16:50

Gilles Quénot

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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Simpler:

find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%Ta\t%p\n' | grep -v -i '^sat'

ref: This answer.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Nov 17 '14 at 17:01

Ketan Maheshwari

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What about files like `saturnism.dat` ? – Gilles Quénot Nov 17 '14 at 17:03
@sputnick thanks, edited answer with a `^` – Ketan Maheshwari Nov 17 '14 at 17:05
What about LANG ? My term is in french, your solution will never works – Gilles Quénot Nov 17 '14 at 17:09

Costas · Answer 3 · 2014-11-17T18:00:12.443

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You should select which time you need

%y modification
%w creation
%z change

or any combination:

stat * --printf="%n\t%y %z\n" | grep -vF $(date -d "last Saturday" +%F) | cut -f1

Also choice what infomation you need and compose --printf= line.

Or you can use just find command

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -daystart \
     ! -mtime $[$(date +%d)-$(date -d "last Saturday" +%d)]

edited Nov 17 '14 at 18:00

answered Nov 17 '14 at 17:16

Costas

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Remove files from listing that are created/modified on Saturday

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