Shell Programming and Scripting

for file in /directory
          do
           mv $file $file+`date`
           scp $file user@host:/
           ssh user@host 'touch /$file.done
           done

for file in /directory
          do
           mv $file $file+`date`   # this creates a new file name with spaces, $file no 
                                         #                     longer points to a valid file
           scp $file user@host:/          # $file is no longer here it is now $file Mon April 14...
           ssh user@host "touch /$file.done"  # what happens with duplicate file names
           done

# make an archive directory if it is not there

[[ ! -d /directory ]]  && mkdir /directory/completed
cd /directory

for file in *
 do
           [[ -d $file ]] && continue  # skip subdirectories
           scp $file user@host:/
           mv $file /directory/completed/$file_$(date "+%Y%m")
           ssh user@host "touch /$file.done"
 done

for file in /dir/*
 do
           mv $file /archive/$file_$(date "+%Y%m")
           touch /archive/$file_$(date "+%Y%m").done
           scp /archive/$file_$(date "+%Y%m") user@host:/
           scp /archive/$file_$(date "+%Y%m").done user@host:/
done