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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move files based on date in filename Post 302432633 by slatoms on Friday 25th of June 2010 02:49:42 PM
Old 06-25-2010
Okay.... Thank you...actually that's the direction I going in, I just felt like maybe that was too much overhead to do that case compare with each file in the loop. I was thinking there might be a simpler way. Here's what I was going to send back to you...

Code:
for FILE in $( ls $instance_hpath/db2dump/db2diag*.log )
do
   FMONTH=$( echo $FILE | awk -F '-' '{print $3}' )
   FYEAR=$( echo $FILE | awk -F '-' '{print $2}' )
   case "$FMONTH" in 
   01) FMONTH=Jan;
   ;;
   02) FMONTH=Feb;
   ;;
   03) FMONTH=Mar;
   ;;
   04) FMONTH=Apr;
   ;;
   05) FMONTH=May;
   ;;
   06) FMONTH=Jun;
   ;;
   07) FMONTH=Jul;
   ;;
   08) FMONTH=Aug;
   ;;
   09) FMONTH=Sep;
   ;;
   10) FMONTH=Oct;
   ;; 
   11) FMONTH=Nov;
   ;;
   12) FMONTH=Dec;
   ;;
   esac
   FOLDER=$FMONTH'_'$FYEAR
   echo $FOLDER
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(you'd do your move now)



---------- Post updated at 02:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:45 PM ----------

(Oh...and I still have to work in my ***Only do this is the file is more than 30 days old*** logic. I'm guessing I should do an IF statement right up front and make all the rest of this the THEN if the file is > 30 days)
 

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HEAD(1) 								FSF								   HEAD(1)

NAME
head - output the first part of files SYNOPSIS
head [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Print first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --bytes=SIZE print first SIZE bytes -n, --lines=NUMBER print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10 -q, --quiet, --silent never print headers giving file names -v, --verbose always print headers giving file names --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg. AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for head is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and head programs are properly installed at your site, the command info head should give you access to the complete manual. head (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 HEAD(1)
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