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this is what I have so far but it bombs out in my if statement...

readOne () {
tput smso
echo "Press any key to return \c"
tput rmso
oldstty=`stty -g`
stty -icanon -echo min 1 time 0
dd...

if I wanted to terminate my script when the following message appears

"No such file or directory"

How would I do that?

never mind.. I think I found what I need....

thanks... I'm still missing something and I can't see what it is...

I'm trying to run the script in debug mode -x but it looks like I need to insert some pauses so I can read what the output...

here is what I'm working with now...


cd /cms/ech_data/archive
start=$( date +%Y%j )
stop=$( date +%Y000 )
while [[ $start -gt $stop ]]
do
cp ${start}.Z ../recovery
cd ../recovery...

thanks for the reply but I have a question...

You have
start=$( date +%Y%03j )
stop=$( date +%Y000 )


shouldn't that line actually be
start=$( date +%Y365 )
stop=$( date +%Y000 )

I'm trying to put together a little script that will move some files to a directory, uncompress the file then delete the file when processing is complete.

The files are all named using julian...