Hello,
Currently I have a painstaking process that I use to move file for a monthly archive. I have to run the same two commands for 24 different directories. I wish to have a script with a for loop automate this and I have not been able to succeed. Here is what I do 24 times. I know this is possible with a range of some how.

$ FILES=`find /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_1_hist/primary/ -type f | xargs ls -l | grep May | awk '{print $NF}'`

$ mv $FILES /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_data_archive/RAW_1_MAY_2011/

#!/bin/bash

for i in {1..24} ; do 
FILES=`find /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_${i}_hist/primary/ -type f | xargs ls -l | grep May | awk '{print $NF}'`

mv $FILES /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_data_archive/RAW_${i}_MAY_2011

done

This worked for me

 

        i=1
        j=24
        while [ $i -le $j ];
        do
        FILES=`find . -name tem"$i" -type f | xargs ls -l | grep Jun  | awk '{print $NF}'`
         mv $FILES ../
        i=`expr $i + 1`
        done

Hello,
Maybe I am not understanding your code correctly.
The files that I wish to move live in separate directories and the target directories are separate as well. That find command you have posted seems to just search . current working directory, it does not iterate through all of them from what I can tell. Also it looks like it is moving the files ../ back one directory.

Each time I run the command that I am using I need to increment the integer.

Command Set 1:

$FILES=`find /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_1_hist/primary/ -type f | xargs ls -l | grep May | awk '{print $NF}'`

$mv $FILES /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_data_archive/RAW_1_MAY_2011/

$FILES=`find /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_2_hist/primary/ -type f | xargs ls -l | grep May | awk '{print $NF}'`

$mv $FILES /mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_data_archive/RAW_2_MAY_2011

See if this works for you:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset -i mNbr=1
while [[ ${mNbr} -le 24 ]]
do
  mDirA="/mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_${mNbr}_hist/primary/"
  mDirB="/mnt/raw_vendor_data/raw_data_archive/RAW_${mNbr}_MAY_2011"
  for mFName in $(find ${mDirA} -type f | xargs ls -l | grep May | awk '{print $NF}')
  do
    echo "Now moving <${mFName}>..."
    mv ${mFName} ${mDirB}
  done
  mNbr=${mNbr}+1
done

Hello Jaysun,

I posted a sample script to show how to increment the variable and use it in find. You might need to adopt the same technique and do the changes accordingly.

Regards
Ravi

Hello,I now have a working solution based on the examples you have both provided. Thank you very much.


Jaysunn