Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Gurus,

I'm trying to move a number of files from one directory to another directory with a new date stamp. This is my script:

#! /bin/csh

Today_Date=`date +%Y%M%D`
mv /usr/TRS/data/TS* /usr/TRS/backup/TS*.${Today_Date}

when i run the script i'm getting the following errors:

mv: /usr/TRS/backup/TS*.20062309/08/06 not found

Any advise?

Thanks

wee

what is the date format that u want exactly ?

date +%Y%M%D

%M - minute format

is of the format

YYYYMMMM/DD/YY

YYYYMMDD
try this,

Code:

date +%Y%m%d

hi thanks for the help. i get the date though (see below), but getting another error message:

mv: /usr/TRS/backup/TS*.20060908 not found

any advise? thanks again.


wee

i think the destination should not have a '*' ... it should be a valid directory, or a filename.

thanks. somehow it solved my problem. this is how my script looks like:

#! /bin/sh

Today_Date=`date +%Y%m%d`

mkdir /usr/TRS/backup/${Today_Date}

mv /usr/TRS/data/T* /usr/TRS/backup/${Today_Date}

so now i will create today's date as a directory and put all the files in.

the question is how do i remove those directory when they are more than 10 days old? thanks again.

you can use the find command with -mtime switch. Please do "man find" and see how it is used or you can search the forum

This is my final script. Do u think it will work? Thanks.

#! /bin/sh

Today_Date=`date +%Y%m%d`

mkdir /usr/TRS/backup/${Today_Date}

mv /usr/TRS/data/T* /usr/TRS/backup/${Today_Date}

find /usr/TRS/backup/. -name 'T*' -mtime +1 -exec rm -f {} \;