AIX

Hello

A new file is created every day with the date appended to the end of a name. We are using Autosys to run jobs which watches for the file and runs jobs. But Autosys does not have the capability to figure out the current date.

I tried creating a symlink like this

ln -s /vas/data/EXT`date +"%y%m%d"`.txt /opt/avs/file

But since the link was created on 19th, it is pointing to /vas/data/EXT100819 as opposed to current day's file.

Is there a way t create symlinks for filenames that change. If not what is the best way to achive this?

Thanks

Nope -- symlink will 'point' to a fixed filename.

If you have control over the process that is creating the file with the date in the file, have it touch a 'done' file that has a constant name. You can have the scheduler watch for the done file and kick the second job off. The second job, or another cleanup job, can remove the done file so that the process can fire again the next day.

If you don't have control over the initial process, then you might have to write something that watches for the file and kicks the secondary job, or touches the done file. There may be other ways, but these are what popped into my head straight away.