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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort and move multiple files by modification date Post 302927206 by Paul Walker on Monday 1st of December 2014 02:14:25 PM
Old 12-01-2014
Hi again, I apologize for just getting back to you now.
The shell I am using is the Bash shell and the bsd version of sed, I'm on a mac.
An example of the file name I have to work with is;
20113_Zebra_WindowCat2014_93f7842-d959-46f1-b1f6-af652fc0f57.bkf
20113_Zebra_WindowCat2014_8015911e-0d8d-4dcf-b2d5-45733d7adb6e.bkf
The part of the string after the 2014 portion is added by the archive program we use to keep track of the latest version in its database, there is no logic that I can see for the string that the archive program adds.
I was thinking that I could list the the directory where the archives reside by date to a text file with the most recent files listing first.
I could use sed to eliminate duplicate lines so that only the most recent entry would be left in the list.
With sed I can reformat the list to a command to move the most recent files I want to a temporary directory while I clean up the original archive directory. Once the original archive directory is cleaned I can move only the most recent archive files back.
I think I'm a little clearer on what I need to do now that I have explained it you though. If you know of a different approach to solve this problem please let me know I would greatly appreciate your input.
Thanks again
 

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SVC(1)							      General Commands Manual							    SVC(1)

NAME
svc, ci, co, svclog - shell version control system SYNOPSIS
ci [-lu] file co [-l] [-r rev] file svclog file OPTIONS
-l For ci, checkin, checkout again, and lock file -l For co, checkout file and then lock the archive -u After checking in, do not delete the file -r Check out revision rev instead most recent revision EXAMPLES
ci -u file # Check in file co -l file # Check out file and lock archive co -r 2 file # Check out version 2 DESCRIPTION
Svc is the Shell Version Control system, patterned on RCS. It maintains a sequence of versions in archive files, so that new versions can be checked in (added to the archive), and old versions can be checked out (made available). To create an archive for file, check it in with the -u flag. This action will prompt for a log message and then create an archive called file,S in the current directory, or in the subdirectory SVC if it exists. The file will not be deleted, but will be made unwritable. To update the file, check it out with the -l flag. Then modify it, and check it back in, giving a new message when prompted. After this process has been repeated many times, the archive will contain the entire history. Any version can be checked out using the -r flag. To get a printout of the history, use svclog. SVC(1)
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