Power of Shell Script

Scripts makes the job more easy !

Below is the sample script which I wrote to retrieve the count of files modified for all the modified dates in home directory. This script also gives the sum of bytes for files modified on the corresponding dates.

prakash@prakash-laptop:~$ for filedate in `ls -l | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2}'`;do ls -l | grep $filedate | awk 'BEGIN{print "----------------------------"} {count+=1;sum+=$5} END{print $6" | " count " | " sum }' ; done


Sample Output
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Date | Count | Sum of bytes
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2007-10-30 | 1 | 26
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2007-11-21 | 1 | 4096
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2008-02-06 | 1 | 332341
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2008-02-25 | 2 | 8192
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2008-03-03 | 1 | 999
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2008-03-04 | 1 | 219
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2008-03-05 | 1 | 3402
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2008-03-06 | 2 | 739209
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2008-03-11 | 4 | 6648
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2008-03-14 | 10 | 50918
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2008-03-15 | 4 | 106573
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2008-03-16 | 1 | 10635


Really the scripting makes your job more easy.