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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Archive won't move Post 302678201 by jrymer on Friday 27th of July 2012 11:57:02 AM
Old 07-27-2012
Archive won't move
I' writing a script trying to archive the oldest two directories from one place, tar them, and move them to another.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

cd (/dir/with/dirforarchiving)
ARCHIVE=(/temp/dir/)
FIND=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d)
ARRAY=(`ls ${FIND} -ltd | tail -2`)

names=(${ARRAY[7]} ${ARRAY[15]})
dates=(${ARRAY[5]} ${ARRAY[13]})

for i in {0..1}
do
        CUT=$(echo ${dates[$i]} | cut -d- -f1,2)
        if [[ -d ${ARCHIVE}${CUT[$i]} ]]
        then
                tar -zcvf ${names[$i]}.tar.gz ${names[$i]}
                mv ${names[$i]}.tar.gz ${ARCHIVE}${CUT[$i]}
        else
                mkdir ${ARCHIVE}${CUT[$i]}
        fi
done

The problem I'm running into is that the oldest two directories, and some others, were created the same month, date, and different only because their modification time was one or two minutes apart. The oldest two have dates of 2012-07-25, when I run the directory exists check, it will created the directory 2012-07 and move ONE of the two targeted directories into it, the other tar does not go in the target directory but one level up. I want it in /temp/dir/2012-07 one of them goes into that and the other goes to /temp/dir.

How can I fix this?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

archive::any

Archive::Any(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Archive::Any(3pm)

NAME

       Archive::Any - Single interface to deal with file archives.

SYNOPSIS

	 use Archive::Any;

	 my $archive = Archive::Any->new($archive_file);

	 my @files = $archive->files;

	 $archive->extract;

	 my $type = $archive->type;

	 $archive->is_impolite;
	 $archive->is_naughty;

DESCRIPTION

       This module is a single interface for manipulating different archive formats.  Tarballs, zip files, etc.

       new
	     my $archive = Archive::Any->new($archive_file);
	     my $archive = Archive::Any->new($archive_file, $type);

	   $type is optional.  It lets you force the file type in-case Archive::Any can't figure it out.

       extract
	     $archive->extract;
	     $archive->extract($directory);

	   Extracts the files in the archive to the given $directory.  If no $directory is given, it will go into the current working directory.

       files
	     my @file = $archive->files;

	   A list of files in the archive.

       mime_type
	    my $mime_type = $archive->mime_type();

	   Returns the mime type of the archive.

       is_impolite
	     my $is_impolite = $archive->is_impolite;

	   Checks to see if this archive is going to unpack into the current directory rather than create its own.

       is_naughty
	     my $is_naughty = $archive->is_naughty;

	   Checks to see if this archive is going to unpack outside the current directory.

DEPRECATED

       type
	     my $type = $archive->type;

	   Returns the type of archive.  This method is provided for backwards compatibility in the Tar and Zip plugins and will be going away
	   soon in favor of "mime_type".

PLUGINS

       For detailed information on writing plugins to work with Archive::Any, please see the pod documentation for Archive::Any::Plugin.

AUTHOR

       Clint Moore <cmoore@cpan.org>

AUTHOR EMERITUS

       Michael G Schwern

SEE ALSO

       Archive::Any::Plugin

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	perldoc Archive::Any

       You can also look for information at:

       o   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

	   <http://annocpan.org/dist/Archive-Any>

       o   CPAN Ratings

	   <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Archive-Any>

       o   RT: CPAN's request tracker

	   <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Archive-Any>

       o   Search CPAN

	   <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Any>

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

perl v5.10.0							    2008-06-25							 Archive::Any(3pm)
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