Shell Programming and Scripting

DATE=`date`
 
cat test.txt | while read line 
do
Fd=`echo $line | awk '{print ($6),($7)}'`
Fn=`echo $line | awk '{print $9}'`
if [ "$Fd" = "$DATE" ] || [ "$Fd" -lt "$DATE" ]; then
gzip $Fn
else 
exit
fi
done

DATE=`date`
 
while read A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 Fn A10
do
        Fd="${A6} ${A7}"
        # "-lt" is for integers-only, afaik
        if [[ "${Fd}" == "$DATE" ]] || [[ "${Fd}" -lt "$DATE" ]]
        then
                gzip "$Fn"
                continue
        fi

        # Do you really want it to quit every time a file isn't too old?
        exit
done < test.txt

MONTH_AGO=$(date --date -1month +%s)
while read A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 Fn A10
do
        Fd=$(date --date "${A6} ${A7}" +%s)
        if [ $Fd -le $MONTH_AGO ]
        then
                gzip "$Fn"
                continue
        fi
 
        # Do you really want it to quit every time a file isn't too old?
        exit
done < test.txt