Shell Programming and Scripting

Not sure how I should approach this one.

I have server X and Server Y. X is a collector. All files are seperated by hour. Y is used strictly for analysis. I do not always need all files from X. Sometimes other people use Y for analysis and do not always know how to transfer the files from X.

How would you set up a web based form so someone could pick a date and transfer all files required from server X to Y?

I currently use scp for transfer from command line.

Thanks

What does this mean?
Amd for this... do you mean hour and date? Do you want ONLY these files? Newer files, older files?

A new file is created every hour.

I would like files based on the date chosen.

Example, I was all files from 5am June 1 to 5am June 2. That would be 24 files.

Well, the find tool has the "-ctime" option which would help you. You would calculate how many hours from right now the file was created. That might be a bit tricky, but assuming you have PHP at your disposal, calculating that is rather trivial. Then you would issue a command to find such as:

Code:

find /path/to/files -type f -ctime -$START -ctime +$END -print

Send the output (via a pipe) to a shell script like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
scp "$@" user@remote.host:/target/dir