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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move files based on date in filename Post 302432633 by slatoms on Friday 25th of June 2010 02:49:42 PM
Old 06-25-2010
Okay.... Thank you...actually that's the direction I going in, I just felt like maybe that was too much overhead to do that case compare with each file in the loop. I was thinking there might be a simpler way. Here's what I was going to send back to you...

Code:
for FILE in $( ls $instance_hpath/db2dump/db2diag*.log )
do
   FMONTH=$( echo $FILE | awk -F '-' '{print $3}' )
   FYEAR=$( echo $FILE | awk -F '-' '{print $2}' )
   case "$FMONTH" in 
   01) FMONTH=Jan;
   ;;
   02) FMONTH=Feb;
   ;;
   03) FMONTH=Mar;
   ;;
   04) FMONTH=Apr;
   ;;
   05) FMONTH=May;
   ;;
   06) FMONTH=Jun;
   ;;
   07) FMONTH=Jul;
   ;;
   08) FMONTH=Aug;
   ;;
   09) FMONTH=Sep;
   ;;
   10) FMONTH=Oct;
   ;; 
   11) FMONTH=Nov;
   ;;
   12) FMONTH=Dec;
   ;;
   esac
   FOLDER=$FMONTH'_'$FYEAR
   echo $FOLDER
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(you'd do your move now)



---------- Post updated at 02:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:45 PM ----------

(Oh...and I still have to work in my ***Only do this is the file is more than 30 days old*** logic. I'm guessing I should do an IF statement right up front and make all the rest of this the THEN if the file is > 30 days)
 

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SYNOPSIS

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       Takes an argument of seconds since the epoch as returned by gettimeofday_s. Returns a string of the form

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