Shell Programming and Scripting

Jim,

We have an exact requirement, but it is not like chj's where it is on two different mountpoints. The files are on one directory and one mount point. All we need to do is update the timestamp of the file so they don't automatically get purged due to aging by our retention policy.

I used the exact code for the same requirement...but it does not work. We have AIX box and use ksh shell. I believe it is due to that...

Instead I was trying to use it this way. It does change the timestamp, but I would like to pass the timestamp as a parameter like you suggested

Code:

(+%Y%m%d%H%M%S)

so when we run this on a monthly basis it will change the timestamp as of the run date.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
find . -type f |
while read fname
do
touch -t 201003050525.26 $SEQ_DIR/${fname}
done

In additon to that, how can we also make the code work so it only picks the files that we need? Should we pass a list file as a parameter which has the list of files that need to be touched with the new timestamp?

Please advise on the best way to approach this.

Regards,
MK