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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move files based on date in filename Post 302432650 by slatoms on Friday 25th of June 2010 04:13:18 PM
Old 06-25-2010
My goal is to move all but about the current month's worth of files so I ended up trying this...

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
   if [ $FMONTH != $(date +\%b) ]
   then
   FOLDER=$FMONTH'_'$FYEAR
   echo $FOLDER
   fi 
done

Your approach may be better since it pulls out all the eligible files before the looping starts. Thank you again.
 

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jdmonthname

JDMONTHNAME(3)								 1							    JDMONTHNAME(3)

jdmonthname - Returns a month name

SYNOPSIS

       string jdmonthname (int	$julianday, int  $mode)

DESCRIPTION

	Returns  a  string  containing a month name. $mode tells this function which calendar to convert the Julian Day Count to, and what type of
       month names are to be returned.

       Calendar modes

       +-----+--------------------------------------+---+
       |Mode |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |		     Meaning		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |		      Values		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       +-----+--------------------------------------+---+
       | 0   |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |	     Gregorian - abbreviated	    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     | Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May,  Jun,  Jul, |	|
       |     | Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       | 1   |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |		    Gregorian		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     | January,   February,  March,  April, |	|
       |     | May, June, July, August,  September, |	|
       |     | October, November, December	    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       | 2   |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |	       Julian - abbreviated	    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     | Jan,  Feb,  Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, |	|
       |     | Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       | 3   |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |		      Julian		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     | January,  February,  March,   April, |	|
       |     | May,  June, July, August, September, |	|
       |     | October, November, December	    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       | 4   |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |		      Jewish		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     | Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, She- |	|
       |     | vat,  AdarI,  AdarII,  Nisan, Iyyar, |	|
       |     | Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       | 5   |					    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     |		French Republican	    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       |     | Vendemiaire,   Brumaire,   Frimaire, |	|
       |     | Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, |	|
       |     | Floreal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermi- |	|
       |     | dor, Fructidor, Extra		    |	|
       |     |					    |	|
       +-----+--------------------------------------+---+
PARAMETERS

	      o $jday
		- The Julian Day to operate on

	      o $calendar
		- The calendar to take the month name from

RETURN VALUES

	The month name for the given Julian Day and $calendar.

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