Task is to get files(pdf) from a local directory, by date. In my scenario we have bulk of pdf files in a directory with different date modified(past few years).  I'm trying to write a loop(which iterate for each day for a year) where i would like get files for each date. can someone help with How to read files on directory based on Date using Java.  Any help is appreciated.
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I want to get a list of files in a directory, but I want to sort it such that the oldest files are first.  My solution was to call File.listFiles and just resort the list based on File.lastModified, but I was wondering if there was a better way.  Edit: My current solution, as suggested, is to use an anonymous Comparator:  File[] files = directory.listFiles();  Arrays.sort(files, new Comparator&lt;File&gt;(){     public int compare(File f1, File f2)     {         return Long.valueOf(f1.lastModified()).compareTo(f2.lastModified());     } });
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A simple for loop in Unix would be:  for FILE in $BASE_WORK_DIR/*.pdf    do      echo $FILE    done   This will echo all .pdf files inside BASE_WORK_DIR directory.   What if BASE_WORK_DIR contains sub directories as well which also contain the pdf file.  In that case how can I design my for loop to take all pdf files from BASE_WORK_DIR as well as sub directories of BASE_WORK_DIR ?
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit:  I'm looking for a way to find all the files in a directory that are NOT of a specific file type or extension.  Example: I'd like to find every file that isn't an .mp3 in my music folder (and all sub folders).
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I want to be able to move $oldfile to my backup folder and add the date to the file name. So I tried this...  mv $oldfile /home/u0146121/backupfiles/$oldfile_$(date +%F-%T)   This just gives me this output filename. (no orignal filename)  2013-07-11-10:22:25  Then I realized the potential problem for the above method. I have a while read loop that reads through a text file of path names for other files I wanted to compare. So for example, $oldfile is actually =    $ cat oldfiles.txt  /home/u0146121/OldLogFiles/file2.txt   So... I want to be able to move the file2.txt and just keep the file2.txt name and add the date to it as well.
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In a directory, I have files like  lazer_100506 lazer_100707 lazer_091211 lazer_110103 lazer_100406_temp lazer_100622#delete   etc  How can I get a listing of only the first four files?  $ ls lazer_...... ls: lazer_......: No such file or directory $
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How can I determine the list of files in a directory from inside my C or C++ code?  I'm not allowed to execute the ls command and parse the results from within my program.
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I need to move files based on a year. I used the find command  find /media/WD/backup/osool/olddata/ -mtime +470 -exec ls -lrth {} \;|sort -k6   but for this command to successfully execute i need to know the exact mtime now 470 is just a guess. Means if I can give the year 2012 it gives me files only related to 2012.  So i need advice on how to     Find files based on year e.g 2012 and move them to other directory.   OS release 5.2  FIND version GNU find version 4.2.27 Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION SELINUX
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For some crazy reason I can't find a way to get a list of files with a glob for a given directory.  I'm currently stuck with something along the lines of:  NSString *bundleRoot = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]; NSArray *dirContents = [[NSFileManager defaultManager]                          directoryContentsAtPath:bundleRoot];   ..and then stripping out the stuff I don't want, which sucks.  But what I'd really like is to be able to search for something like "foo*.jpg" instead of asking for the entire directory, but I've not been able to find anything like that.  So how the heck do you do it?
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I am looking for a way to delete all files older than 7 days in a batch file.  I've searched around the web, and found some examples with hundreds of lines of code, and others that required installing extra command line utilities to accomplish the task.  Similar things can be  in just a couple lines of code. It seems that something at least remotely easy could be done for batch files in Windows. I'm looking for a solution that works in a standard Windows command prompt, without any extra utilities. Please no PowerShell or Cygwin either.
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If you have a series of subfolders (like from a to z) and want to run a command on each one of them (like rm *.pdf or ls *.pdf), how do you do that? The "manual" approach would be cd a, rm *.pdf, or ls *.pdf, cd .., cd b, ... That seems too complicated, so I believe there must be an easier approach.
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How do I use the UNIX command find to search for files created on a specific date?
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I have a folder on my PC in which I keep my temporary files, which I won't be needing after some time. I manually delete them from time to time. What is a way to automate this? I can think of deleting files whose last access time is greater than 20 minutes using Java, but then again, I would have to run it myself which still wouldn't be automation. I using using Windows and file system is NTFS.
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I have a directory called /home/mydir/test A file will be sent from some other team which lands in this directory. How to find what is the time the file came to this particular directory? ( I need both time in time stamp format and normal hh:mm:ss format too ) I have to move the files to directory which is here for more than 5 hours. How to fetch  those files?
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I have a directory that contains the following:  x.pdf y.zip z.mp3 a.pdf   I want to delete all files apart from x.pdf and a.pdf. How do I do this from the terminal? There are no subdirectories so no need for any recursion.
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In the past, I learned that in Linux/UNIX file systems, directories are just files, which contain the filenames and inode numbers of the files inside the directory.   Is there a simple way to see the content of a directory? I mean the way the files names and inodes are stored/organized.  I'm not looking for ls, find or something similiar. I also don't want to see the content of the files inside a directory. I want to see the implementation of the directories. If every directory is just a text file with some content, maybe a simple way exists to see the content of this text file.  In the bash in Linux it is not possible to do a cat folder. The output is just Is a directory.  Update The question  addresses the same issue but it has no helpful solution like the one from .
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I'd like to be able to print text that varies depending on whether the date matches a given date string  For example  suppose there was a command   \iftoday#1#2#3   which printed #2 if \today matched the string in #1 and #3 otherwise.  So a sample of my proposed usage would be:     \iftoday{February 3, 2016}{There's no garbage today}{Please put out the garbage}    I've tried various commands like pdftexcmd's strcmp, to no avail.    I suspect the problem may have to do with matching the string generated by \today.    While on screen it appears that \today returns February 3, 2016. I can't get it to match February 3, 2016 when I compare strings.  Obviously, I'd be perfectly happy if I could get this to work by represent today's date in any of the standard date formats.  Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions.
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I'm trying to beat my head against the syntax of this. I'm getting problems with whitespaces and I can't see if there's a better way to do this.  vardir=/home/user cd $vardir for i in $(ls "$vardir") ; do timestamp="$(stat -c %Y $i)" echo "$i" echo "$timestamp"  done   Result is similar no matter where I quote and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong:  stat: cannot stat ‘Temporary’: No such file or directory Temporary  stat: cannot stat ‘Items’: No such file or directory Items   My goal is I want to grab the timestamps off of backup directories and touch the current ones to restore the original modified dates.