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# 8  
Old 07-01-2014
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Originally Posted by CarloM
Bear in mind that ls -rt $svdumpdir/* might return more than one file per line (unless your ls is aliased to something).
Note that ls never puts more than one filename on a line if the output is not connected to a terminal device. The -1 option is always effectively turned on when ls output is sent through a pipe.
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Old 07-02-2014
Just guessing: If using e.g. bash, and if your filenames are built consistently, with the region number in the 13th char, you could move the files without the case statement:
Code:
DEST=(MW MA NW SE SW WE WC)
for ...
mv $svdumpdir/${file} $npacdir/${DEST[${file:12:1}]}/$yyyymmdd.gtt.gz 
... done
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