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Old 08-18-2016
i tried to extract the date using the below code but not able to,can you please check
Code:
#Script for copying files from src to dest based on same date and time
#!/bin/bash

#Script Variables
SPATH="/remote/home/folder1"
DPATH="/remote/home/folder2"
SUFFIX_ARG="*.txt"
ACTION_TIME=`date +'%Y%m%d' "%H:%M:%S:"`


echo "${ACTION_TIME} Starting copy task" 
find ${SPATH} -type f -name "${SUFFIX_ARG}" -print | while read path
do
   FN="${path##*/}" #extract the file name from the path
   temp=${FN#*_} 
  date=${temp%.txt.pgp} # trying to get the date alone 
   echo "this is the file name"$FN 
   ACTION_TIME=`date +"%Y%m%d %T"`
     if [ -e "${DPATH}/${FN}" ]   #if the destination file exists, skip it
   then
      echo "${ACTION_TIME} Skipped: File ${DPATH}/${FN} already exist"  
   else
      
	   cp "$path" "${DPATH}/${FN} ${ACTION_TIME}"  
	   ACTION_TIME=`date +"['%y%m%d' %T]:"`
	   echo "${ACTION_TIME} Copy ${FN} to ${DPATH} Complete"  
   fi
   echo "done copy"
done



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Mod Comment Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules!

Last edited by RudiC; 08-18-2016 at 12:28 PM.. Reason: Added/corrected CODE tags.
 

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DATETIME.SUB(3) 							 1							   DATETIME.SUB(3)

DateTime::sub - Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public DateTime DateTime::sub (DateInterval $interval) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style DateTime date_sub (DateTime $object, DateInterval $interval) Subtracts the specified DateInterval object from the specified DateTime object. PARAMETERS
o $object -Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(3). The function modifies this object. o $interval - A DateInterval object RETURN VALUES
Returns the DateTime object for method chaining or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 DateTime.sub(3) example Object oriented style <?php $date = new DateTime('2000-01-20'); $date->sub(new DateInterval('P10D')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . " "; ?> Procedural style <?php $date = date_create('2000-01-20'); date_sub($date, date_interval_create_from_date_string('10 days')); echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d'); ?> The above examples will output: 2000-01-10 Example #2 Further DateTime.sub(3) examples <?php $date = new DateTime('2000-01-20'); $date->sub(new DateInterval('PT10H30S')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; $date = new DateTime('2000-01-20'); $date->sub(new DateInterval('P7Y5M4DT4H3M2S')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; ?> The above example will output: 2000-01-19 13:59:30 1992-08-15 19:56:58 Example #3 Beware when subtracting months <?php $date = new DateTime('2001-04-30'); $interval = new DateInterval('P1M'); $date->sub($interval); echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . " "; $date->sub($interval); echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . " "; ?> The above example will output: 2001-03-30 2001-03-02 NOTES
DateTime.modify(3) is an alternative when using PHP 5.2. SEE ALSO
DateTime.add(3), DateTime.diff(3), DateTime.modify(3). PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.SUB(3)
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