George,

did you try

"find -ctime"

instead of your ls|awk combination?

It would help, if you could provide a little more information...
What does your procedure do?
What is the script supposed to to?
How is the script executed?

Robbie


> Just seen a typo, below should read:
>
> Which finds files created 26 Jan 2005 00:00
>
> not
>
> Which finds files created 05 Jan 2005 00:00
>
> Sorry!! :-)
>
>
> George McKenzie <oracledba-ezmlmshield-x53086022.[Email address protected]
> wrote:
> A question for any UNIX gurus out there....
>
> I have written a procedure that builds a unix shell script.
>
> The main output of the script is:
>
>
> ls -log | awk ' $4 == "Jan" && $5 == 26 && $6 == "00:00"'
>
> Which finds files created 05 Jan 2005 00:00
>
> Does anyone know how to turn the value for $6 into a wildcard that return
> values for anytime on that day (ie the equivalent of *:*)??
>
> Many thanks in advance....
>
>
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