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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking the time of last file received? Post 302200879 by rebootman on Friday 30th of May 2008 10:04:09 AM
Old 05-30-2008
Hi and thanks for the script.
When I try to run the script it produces the following error:

month index 5
date: -- illegal option
Usage: date [-u] [+format]
date [-u] [-t [[CC]YYMMDDhhmm[.SS] | MMDDhhmm[YY] ]
./UNIX_SCRIPT[72]: %s: syntax error


Another question is you have mentioned that the file must be passed as an argument? At the time of doing this check I won't know the latest file and would need to check in the current direcotry fot it.

Does this script do that? (The script is way above my knowledeg of Unix)

Thanks
 

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NAME

       nqs2pbs - convert NQS job scripts to PBS

SYNOPSIS

       nqs2pbs nqs_script [pbs_script]

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  converts	a  existing NQS job script to work with PBS and NQS.  The existing script is copied and PBS directives, #PBS , are
       inserted prior to each NQS directive #QSUB or #@$ , in the original script.

       Certain NQS date specification and options are not supported by PBS.  A warning message will be displayed indicating the  problem  and  the
       line of the script on which it occurred.

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	      If specified, it is the name of the new PBS script.   If not specified, the new file name is nqs_script.new .

NOTES

       Converting NQS date specifications to the PBS form may result in a warning message and an incompleted converted date.  PBS does not support
       date  specifications  of  "today",  "tomorrow", or the name of the days of the week such as "Monday".  If any of these are encountered in a
       script, the PBS specification will contain only the time portion of the NQS specification, i.e. #PBS -a hhmm[.ss].   It is  suggested  that
       you specify the execution time on the qsub command line rather than in the script.

       Note that PBS will interpret a time specification without a date in the following way:

       -  If the time specified has not yet been reached, the job will become eligible to run at that time today.

       -  If the specified time has already passed when the job is submitted, the job will become eligible to run at that time tomorrow.

       PBS does not support time zone identifiers.  All times are taken as local time.

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