在Bash中比较UTC日期/时间字符串

时间:2013-08-09 15:27:47

标签: arrays bash utc

我有一个数组,其中包含以下格式的几个amazon ec2卷快照的UTC创建时间:2013-08-09T14:20:47.000Z

我正试图找出一种方法来比较数组中的元素,以确定哪一个是最早的快照并在Bash 4中将其删除

我现在拥有的当前代码:

#creates a count of all the snapshot volume-id's and deletes oldest snapshot if 
#there are more than 5 snapshots of that volume

declare -A vol_id_count=( ["id_count"]="${snapshot_vols[@]}" )
check_num=5

for e in ${vol_id_count[@]}
do
  if (( ++vol_id_count[$e] > $check_num ))
  then
    echo "first nested if works"
    #compare UTC times to find oldest snapshot
    #snapshot_time=${snapshot_times[0]}

    #for f in ${snapshot_times[@]}
    #do
    #  time= date --date="$snapshot_time" +%s
    #  snapshot_check=${snapshot_times[$f]}
    #  echo "check: "$snapshot_check
    #  check= date --date="$snapshot_check" +%s

    #  if [[ "$snapshot_time" -gt "$snapshot_check" ]]
    #  then
    #    snapshot_time=$snapsnapshot_check
    #    echo "time: "$snapshot_time
    #  fi
    #done

    #snapshot_index=${snapshot_times[$snapshot_time]}
    #aws ec2 delete-snapshot --snapshot-id "${snapshot_ids[$snapshot_index]}"
  fi
done

我有第一个for循环和if语句正在检查是否有超过5个特定卷的快照但我正在试图弄清楚如何比较UTC字符串。我想知道第二个关联数组会做出这个技巧吗?

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

以下是我将如何做到这一点:sort

dates=(
    2013-08-09T14:20:47.000Z
    2013-08-09T14:31:47.000Z
    )

latest=$(for date in ${dates[@]}
do
    echo $date
done | sort | tail -n 1)

echo $latest # outputs "2013-08-09T14:31:47.000Z"

这显然只是一个示例脚本,根据需要进行修改 - 它可以很容易地转换为如下函数:

function latest() {
    local dates="$@"
    for date in ${dates[@]}
    do
        echo $date
    done | sort | tail -n 1
}

latest ${dates[@]} # outputs "2013-08-09T14:31:47.000Z"

答案 1 :(得分:0)

如果您已有阵列,则无需使用循环打印项目。单个echo将起作用(但仅当文件名中没有空格时):

oldest=`echo "${snapshot_times[@]}" | tr ' ' '\12' | sort -r | tail -1)`

如果这些“时间戳”来自文件名本身,只需在管道中使用ls

snapshot_dir=/some/path/to/snapshots
count=`ls -1 $snapshot_dir/ | wc -l`  # get count of snapshots

# expunge the oldest snapshot if there are more than 5
if (( count > 5 )); then
  oldest_name=`(cd $snapshot_dir ; ls -1 ) | sort | head -1`
  oldest_file="$snapshot_dir/$oldest_name"
  [[ -f "$oldest_file" ]] && {
    echo "Purging oldest snapshot: $oldest_file"
    rm -f $oldest_file
  }
fi