Shell Programming and Scripting

need help on this scenario:

serverA:" Under /etc there are directories like

20090908
20090909
20090910
etc..

a. I like to go to 20090909 (for example) and look for filename.. Say abx.* files..
b. I will scp this to another server 9serverB and the directory should be like this /tmp/20090909

The directory on serverA will also be my directory name on serverB.

I usually do this manually by executing the command scp -p abx.* user@IP:/tmp/file1

Guess all abx.* files under folders directly.

Code:

cd /etc

tar cvf abx.tar */abx.* 
scp abx.tar user@IP:/tmp
ssh user@IP "cd /tmp; tar xvf abx.tar"

not all files under the directory will be copied..
example: cd /etc
20090901 directory
20090902 directory

cd /20090901
scp -p file0901.dat user@ip:/tmp/20090901

OR

cd /20090902
scp -p file0902.dat user@ip:/tmp/20090902


thanks
note: will depend on what directory will I choose.

Code:

tar cvf abx.tar */abx.*

This tar command will only tar the file with name: abx.*

If you need scp *.dat file, change to:

Code:

tar cvf abx.tar */*.dat

If these dat files are in some subfolders, then use find +tar.

how can this be incorporate into a bash script? my concern is that the directory is unknown.
cd /etc
20090901 directory
20090902 directory

cd /20090901
scp -p file0901.dat user@ip:/tmp/20090901

if I choose

cd /20090902
scp -p file0902.dat user@ip:/tmp/20090902

The 20090902 is a drectory and it should create dir automatically with the same name.