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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Combining multiple variables into new variable Post 302523846 by Skrynesaver on Friday 20th of May 2011 03:25:44 AM
Old 05-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by dring
Hello, I am a new joiner to the forum,
Always handy to know a carpenter Smilie
Code:
#!/bin/bash

n=1
a=/archive
dir_1=/home/gohara/test/sd1
dir_2=/home/gohara/test/sd2
dir_3=/home/gohara/test/sd3
filemask_1='TAV\*.???' # avoid interpolation here
filemask_2='TAV\*.???' # And include an escape
filemask_3='TAV\*.???'# for the call to find
fileage_1=30
fileage_2=30
fileage_3=30

while [ $n -le 3 ]
do
    #If dir_n is NOT NULL
    if [ -n ${dir_$n} ]; then
       find ${dir_$n}/${filemask_$n} -type f -mtime +fileage_$n -exec mv {} ${dir_$n}$a \;

       #Repeat task for 3 directories listed above
       n=`expr $n + 1`
    fi
done

You can surround the variable name with braces to isolate it from surrounding text.
 

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