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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting file moving based on file content Post 302142224 by melvyn.cochrane on Thursday 25th of October 2007 05:13:09 AM
Old 10-25-2007
bakunin,

thanks for your assistance.
Just to clarify, the character strings are not at the beginning of the file, but could be anywhere within the file. Also the target directory names are not the same as the character strings, for example.

File Name : G0001.dat
The BMW is a great car, worthy of consideration.

File Name : G0002.dat
The FIAT is your standard run of the mill car

File Name : G0003.dat
The VOLVO is an american vehicle.

these files are all in the same diretory called /data1/motor/report

What i would want to do is...search each file, if i find the character string BMW, move the file to the /data1/motor/german directory. if i find the character string FIAT, move the respective file to the /data1/motor/italian directory. if i find the character string VOLVO, move the respective file to the /data1/motor/usa directory.

Hope this clears it up for you.

thanks
melvyn
 

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NAME

       arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format

SYNOPSIS

       arp2ethers [ arp.dat file ]

DESCRIPTION

       arp2ethers  converts  the file /var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat (or the file specified on the command line) into ethers(5) format on stdout.  Usu-
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FILES

       /var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat
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SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8),

BUGS

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AUTHORS

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