I know this gets covered quite a bit in the forum and I think there is enough there for me to figure out how to do what I am trying to do, I just don't think I would do it very efficiently so I am going to ask the question...
I have database log files with date and time stamps in the file like
db2diag-2010-04-09-06.04.01.log in a directory in AIX
I want to process this directory of log files and where the date stamp in the file name is greater than 30 days old (I have roughly 6 months worth now) I want to move that file to another path and put it into the appropriate folder based on date where the naming is month-year format (like Apr-2010).
There's probably a thousand ways to think about this and I can only see the one right at the top of my mind, but I am guessing I need a loop where I parse the date out of each file name with pattern db2diag*.log, see if it's more than 30 days old and then use that date to figure out the name of the folder it needs to move to. I think with my knowledge level I'd probably be tempted to do that with a case statement so that when I parse the 04 out of the example file name I do something like (where $month equals 04)
Thank you. I'm going to play with this a little and see if I get it tuned to what I need. The month-year (Apr-2010) folders that I am moving to already exist which is why I need to figure out from my file name that *2010-04-09 should go into the Apr-2010 folder as opposed to making a new one. I like your loop logic though so I'm gonna borrow that and see if I can get there. I'll let you know.
The month-year (Apr-2010) folders that I am moving to already exist which is why I need to figure out from my file name that *2010-04-09 should go into the Apr-2010 folder as opposed to making a new one.
Okay.... Thank you...actually that's the direction I going in, I just felt like maybe that was too much overhead to do that case compare with each file in the loop. I was thinking there might be a simpler way. Here's what I was going to send back to you...
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(Oh...and I still have to work in my ***Only do this is the file is more than 30 days old*** logic. I'm guessing I should do an IF statement right up front and make all the rest of this the THEN if the file is > 30 days)
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