Are general linux questions off-topic here? I'm trying to automate some
tasks, one of which is detailed below:
With the following commands in a shell script, I want to search for files
that have been modified on the current date and have the output mailed to
me, probably will run this as a cron job, I have that covered though.
date +'"%b %-d"'>file.txt
date string above dumps this to file.txt: "Apr 8"
ls -laR /home/higginbo | grep -ffile.txt | mail higginbo
grep should be reading standard input from the ls command, using the string
in file.txt as an argument, and then mailing the results to me. I get
nothing. I think the problem is with the syntax I am using with grep.
Anyone see anything wrong?
ls -laR /home/higginbo | grep "Apr 8" | mail higginbo
This works great, but I have to change and run the command by hand when I
want to check the results.
I'm sure it is something really simple I am missing, but what? Or maybe
even an easier way to do it perhaps???
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