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# 8  
Old 02-15-2011
Try:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
DATEFOLDER=`date +%m%d%y`
SOURCE=/opt/Lotus/restores
DESTINATION=/tpcdcatap01h/app1/restores/$DATEFOLDER
mkdir -p "$DESTINATION"
chmod 7777 "$DESTINATION"
mv "$SOURCE"/*.nsf "$DESTINATION"
chown tpcdap1h "$DESTINATION"/*.nsf

The beauty of this version is that as the shell expands the wildcards each file, even if it has spaces in its name, will be a separate argument to mv/chown
Andrew

Edit: Ha! Beaten to it by Scrutinizer
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# 9  
Old 02-15-2011
Your version works better if there are not too many files..
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