Grabing the same timestamp from files that are ZIPPED


 
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Old 07-25-2014
Maybe something like this:

Code:
zip APP_Deg_Dummy_$(ls | head -n1 | awk -F_ '{print substr($2, 1, 8)"TM"substr($2, 10, 6)}').zip Dummytest_20140601W110515_file*
  adding: Dummytest_20140601W110515_file1.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: Dummytest_20140601W110515_file2.txt (stored 0%)

ls *.zip
APP_Deg_Dummy_20140601TM110515.zip

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Old 07-28-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
Maybe something like this:

Code:
zip APP_Deg_Dummy_$(ls | head -n1 | awk -F_ '{print substr($2, 1, 8)"TM"substr($2, 10, 6)}').zip Dummytest_20140601W110515_file*
  adding: Dummytest_20140601W110515_file1.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: Dummytest_20140601W110515_file2.txt (stored 0%)

ls *.zip
APP_Deg_Dummy_20140601TM110515.zip

Thanks a ton. This is working fine and as expected.

All the files in the given directory are zipping fine.

Thanks...This is very helpful.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Thanks for the information, but that didn't answer all the questions. If in addition to having the files:
Code:
Dummytest_20140601W110515_file001.txt
Dummytest_20140601W110515_file002.txt
Dummytest_20140601W110515_file003.txt

in a directory, the same directory contains another set of files, perhaps something like:
Code:
Dummytest_20140603W214545_file001.txt
Dummytest_20140603W214545_file002.txt
Dummytest_20140603W214545_file004.txt
Dummytest_20140603W214545_file005.txt
Dummytest_20140603W214545_file006.txt

how will you tell your script which set to zip? Or will this never happen? If it could happen, should both sets be zipped.

Will there ever be any files in the directory containing these files with names ending with .txt that should not be zipped.

Will the zip file always be named APP_Deg_Dummy_dateTMtimestamp_File.zip? If not, how will the various parts of the name to be used for a given invocation be passed to your script?
All file with *.txt will be zipped. The above mentioned solution works perfectly fine.

Thanks
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