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Operating Systems AIX How to create a sym link pointing a changing name. Post 302447069 by vra5107 on Friday 20th of August 2010 09:08:05 PM

08-20-2010

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How to create a sym link pointing a changing name.

Hello

A new file is created every day with the date appended to the end of a name. We are using Autosys to run jobs which watches for the file and runs jobs. But Autosys does not have the capability to figure out the current date.

I tried creating a symlink like this

ln -s /vas/data/EXT`date +"%y%m%d"`.txt /opt/avs/file

But since the link was created on 19th, it is pointing to /vas/data/EXT100819 as opposed to current day's file.

Is there a way t create symlinks for filenames that change. If not what is the best way to achive this?

Thanks

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