Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

Please can you help me in writing a script to find files on a specific directory, and of extension "tap" but only of the month of september, gzip and move them to another directory.
Your help will be appreciated.

Hi,

if you're goin' to use a shell (i.e.: bash, sh, ksh, etc.) script, start reading man pages for the following commands:
- find: looking for the files with the required extension and with modification time in the required date-range (hint: look at the -ctime option and numeric arguments in the TEST section of the man page; look also at the -name option in the same section);
- gzip: compressing the files
- mv: moving the files

Then try to write some line of codes and post them for further help.
see ya
fra

Hi

I am still learning scripting, but I was thinking on these lines:

Code:

find /some_dir -type f \(-name "*.tap" \) > file_list
gzip $(< file_list)

but the problem is it will find all files, but I only want the ones from september.

Moderator's Comments:

How to use code tags

how do you know the file is from september? from the file name, timestamp or content?

Give a sample.

if you do a ls -lrt:
ls -lrt ICTCDMOZ01AUSTA0375020110921123256.tap
-rw-r--r-- 1 ictprd ict 73800 Sep 21 12:35 ICTCDMOZ01AUSTA0375020110921123256.tap