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05-17-2012

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I don't understand why you use a perl script just to get the mtime from the file you want to move. Why not just do the whole thing in perl? I have no idea what $int is supposed to mean. I also don't understand why you use the perl script to output the time in a format that you then have to parse with 3 separate invocations. Here's a more logical alternative:

Code:

filetime() {
   # Change %F,%T as needed. See "man strftime"
   perl  -mPOSIX -e 'print POSIX::strftime("%F,%T\n",localtime((stat(shift))[9]))' ; 
}

while read line ; do 
        test ! -e "$FFile/$line" && continue;

        monyyyy=$(filetime "$FFile/$line")
        mkdir -p $arch/$line
        mv "$FFile/$line" $arch/$line/$monyyyy
done

But I think this entire approach could be simplified with using GNU's fileutils' find:

Code:

$adir=ARCHIVE_DIR
$sdir=SOURCE_DIR
$flist=/tmp/filelist.$$
# Step 1: Create the list of files
cd $sdir
find . -type f -printf "%T+ %p\n" > $flist

# Step 2: create the directory tree in adir
cd $adir
awk '{ print $2 }' $flist | xargs $DEBUG mkdir -p 

# Step 3: move the files
cd $sdir
cat $flist | 
while read time path ; do
   $DEBUG mv $path $adir/$path/$time
done

To prevent this from destroying files while you test, export DEBUG=echo

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file-roller(1)							   User Commands						    file-roller(1)

NAME

       file-roller - create, view, modify, or unpack an archive

SYNOPSIS

       file-roller [--add] [--add-to=archive] [--default-dir=folder] [--extract] [--extract-to=folder] [--force] [--help] [--usage]

DESCRIPTION

       The  File  Roller  application enables you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for
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OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --add		       Ask for the name of the archive, then add the files, then quit the application. You can also use -a to specify this
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       --add-to=archive        Add files to the specified archive, then quit the application.  You can also use -d to specify this option.

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       --force		       Create the destination folder without asking for confirmation.

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FILES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

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