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Actually the script is fired every time a file is arrived. This is done through an external application. This featured cannot be disabled since its used by some other applications too.

So the idea...

Unix Gurus,

I have a requirement where the shell script needs to do specific tasks after certain period of time.

Daily we receive few files in a particular folder. The script does the file...

Hi Unix Gurus,

I am able to copy only files that exist in the parent folder. My parent folder has sub folders and within sub folders there are lots files.

I need to copy folder, sub folders and...

Unix Gurus,

I have a shell script which has few "echo" statements. I am trying to create a logfile where all the outputs of the echo statement sare stored.

I will have to add this as the...

Alister,

Can you please help me to change the command?

Thanks

Hi Unix gurus,

I have a requirement where I need to find the file count based on unique file names.

OPEN_INV_MMDDYYYY_HHMM.xls
OPEN_INV_MMDDYYYY_HHMM.xls
OPEN_INV_MMDDYYYY_HHMM.xls
...

G.pi,

I tried all your suggestions and it is still not working. It considers .txt and .xls as same set and removes 5 files leaving the count as 3.

The idea is to leave 3 files for each set...

Hi Unix gurus,

I am trying to remove the filenames based on MMDDYYYY in the physical name as such so that the directory always has the recent 3 files based on MMDDYYYY. "HHMM" is just dummy in...

Thanks a bunch.

Corona,

Thanks for the script. The code is fine and it works when the extensions are same.
But my requirement is some thing like below:
OPEN_INV_01012011.xls
OPEN_INV_01022011.xls...

Hi Unix Gurus,

In a script, I am trying to extract unique text from a set of filenames.
I have certain files like below in a directory:

OPEN_INV_01012011.xls
OPEN_INV_01022011.xls...

Thank you Jim. It works like a charm!!!!

I am still not able to make the script work. I am not able to get the correct echo message.
I wanted to check only inside the /opt/feeds directory.

Can you please modify the script?

Thanks,...

Dear Unix Gurus,
I am new to shell scripting and in the process of learing.
I am trying to find whether a file name has today's date in MMDDYYYY format.
I am using the following code and it...

Thanks a bunch DGPickett!!!!!.

Everything works fine.

DGPickett:

I am using the following code where I just added additional "echo statements".
There are two files inside the CURRENT directory - BAXT_INV_08032011.csv and BAXT_INV_08042011.csv. The...

Adding one more point currently the files always has .CSV as the extension. Will there be a problem if the file extensions are different.
For example if we get files like:
HMIA_CLS_08012011.csv...

DGPickett: When I execute the script it doesn't do anything or throw error.

g.pi: When I execute your script what ever is in the CURRENT goes to the ARCHIVE. But the new file from Source does not...

Yes Please that will be great.

Also if possible if you an include comments that will be informative for a beginner like me.

For example if you can add some comments here:
while (( 6 < $( ls...

Dear GURUS,

First of all I am thankful for being patient with me. Let me explain in more detail:

Current will always have the filename with the latest "MMDDYYYY".
Archive will be having the...

The code still not working. May be I am not getting it to work as expected. I will try tweaking the code.

If you can throw some more light with comments and any new code will be helpful.

Thanks

Hi Shell_life,

I am still not getting the script to work. The issue I notice is the file name.
The names I gave was an example.
If the file name format changes then the script won't work.
The...

These files are actually report outputs with .CSV extension. They are moved to this folder via application.

I am using something like below:


CURR_DIRECTORY=/opt/data/feeds/Current...

Dear Gurus,

I am a novice in shell scripts. I have a requirement where I need to move files every day from Current Folder to Archive folder.

Daily I will be receiving 5 files in the folder -...