08-29-2008
extracting and using date from filenames in a loop
HIya,
Having a dumb day whilst writing an archive process in Shell want to extract from the filename the date and archive into tar files based on this, I don't want to use mtime as it may not be the actual file date.
The files are
-rw-rw---- 1 user admin 100 Aug 29 11:10 Jav_Transmission_20080826.dat
-rw-rw---- 1 user admin 100 Aug 29 11:10 Jav_Transmission_20080827.dat
-rw-rw---- 1 user admin 100 Aug 29 11:11 Jav_Transmission_20080828.dat
-rw-rw---- 1 user admin 100 Aug 29 11:11 Jav_Transmission_20080829.dat
so for each of the days in the below dir I want to find a way to sort of
for dates in `ls -l |extract distinct file date in thias directory`
tar -cvf ${dates}.tar *${dates}*.dat
mv ${dates}.tar /arc
done
So of thing, any help gratefully received.
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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-
ally arp.dat is an ethernet/ip database file generated by arpwatch(8). The arpwatch daemon in Debian will create different arp.dat depend-
ing on its configuration. All of them will be available at /var/lib/arpwatch/.
FILES
/var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat
arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database
SEE ALSO
arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8),
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AUTHORS
Original version by Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of California, Berkeley,
CA.
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The current version is available via anonymous ftp:
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