So I tried
ncftpls -l
which gives me a list
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 ftpgroup 3817084 Jan 29 15:50 1548773401.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 ftpgroup 3817089 Jan 29 15:51 1548773461.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 ftpgroup 3817083 Jan 29 15:52 1548773521.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 ftpgroup 3817085 Jan 29 15:53 1548773582.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 ftpgroup 3817090 Jan 29 15:54 1548773642.tar.gz
But all I want is to check the timestamp (which is the name of the tar.gz) How to only get the timestamp list ?
As requested, all I wanted to do is delete old backups, so awk was a good idea (at least it was effective) even it wasn't the right params. My method to delete old backup is probably not the best but it works
ncftpls *authParams* | (awk '{match($9,/^[0-9]+/, a)}{ print a[0] }') | while read fileCreationDate; do
VALIDITY_LIMIT="$((`date +%s`-600))"
a=$VALIDITY_LIMIT
b=$fileCreationDate
if [ $b -lt $a ];then
deleteFtpFile $b
fi
done;
You can use awk
to only display the timestamps from the output like so:
ncftpls -l | awk '{ print $5 }'