How to list and move files with spaces and wildcard?
I am writing a code that can move and archve all the files in a directory except the latest file based on file pattern provided in a controlfile.
The filename is in the form of pattern. So basically we find the all the files of the pattern provided and archive all of them, leaving one latest file.
I am on Sun Solaris unix machine.
The control fileTestcontrol.csv is a .csv(comma delimited) file that contains three fields- directorypath,FilenamePattern,archivedir Something like below
I have written the code below that reads the control file and perform the logic. It works fine for filenames or patterns that does not have any spaces in the control file. But the code below does NOT work with pattern that has spaces.This is my issue. I would appreciate if you can help me out in modifying the code below to work for filename pattern with spaces.
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