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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename files - need help with array? Post 302283508 by quirkasaurus on Tuesday 3rd of February 2009 11:47:01 AM
Old 02-03-2009
A couple of things:

First of all, this:

Code:
FNAMETMP=/usr/bin/find $MAINDIR -name *.txt -newer $FILECOMP 2>>$LOGDIR

Will not work.
I think what you want is:

Code:
/usr/bin/find $MAINDIR -name *.txt -newer $FILECOMP | head -1 | read FNAMETMP
echo $FNAMETMP


Secondly, it's better to redirect all LOGGING commands all at once.
There's a variety of ways to do this.... however, my preferred way
is through a subshell and redirection. It's simple and straightforward:

Code:
(
date
echo some other commands
echo more commands
echo etc...
date
) > LOG 2>&1

This way, you don't clutter up code with a bunch of ">> $LOGFILE" stuff.
Plus, you save stdout and stderr in one fell swoop and cannot lose anything.

I don't understand why you'd want to clobber a bunch of *.txt files with *.csv
files in this way....

it seems to me that this:

Code:
(
find $MAINDIR -name \*.csv -print |
while read file_nm ; do

  ### change csv to txt
  tmp=${file_nm%.csv}.txt

  ### remove directory name ( like basename )
  new_file_nm=${tmp##*/}

  mv $file_nm archive/$new_file_nm

  scp archive/$new_file_nm $SCPINFO

done
) > $LOGFILE 2>&1

... is what you're looking for.

It finds a bunch of *.csv files.
Moves them to an archive directory as *.txt files.
Then scp's them over to somewhere else.
And stores any error messages in a log file.
 

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