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Old 07-16-2012
Adding Previous Month To Filename

Dear experts,

I'm using solaris 5.10 and bash. I want to zip file "Amount.txt" to "Amount.zip" and rename it to "Amount_<prev_month>_<this year>.zip". For example, file for this month should be renamed to "Amount_06_2012.zip", for next month it should be "Amount_07_2012.zip". I have no problem for zipping the file. Here's the script but it's not working:

Code:
month=`date +%m`
year=`date +%Y`
lmonth=`expr $month - 1`
if test "$lmonth" = "0"
then
lmonth=12
year=`expr $year - 1`
fi

mv Amount.zip Amount_`$lmonth`_`$year`.zip

When I executed it, it shows:
Code:
./script.sh: 6: not found
./script.sh: 2012: not found

Then the zip file renamed to "Amount__.zip"

Best regards,
Kris Adrianto
# 2  
Old 07-16-2012
For previous month use this...
Code:
date --date="last month" +%m_%Y
06_2012

# 3  
Old 07-16-2012
Use below command instead of your mv.
Code:
mv Amount.zip Amount_$lmonth_$year.zip

# 4  
Old 07-16-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pravin27
Use below command instead of your mv.
Code:
mv Amount.zip Amount_$lmonth_$year.zip

almost there.. but when I use this, it only shows: "Amount_2012.zip" not "Amount_6_2012.zip". Then I erased the $year, then it shows "Amount_6.zip".
# 5  
Old 07-16-2012
try this.....

Code:
L_Date=`date --date="last month" +%m_%Y`
mv Amount.zip Amount_$L_Date.zip

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# 6  
Old 07-16-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
Code:
L_Date=`date --date="last month" +%m_%Y`
mv Amount.zip Amount_$L_Date.zip

Hi pamu.. i think your code isn't applicable in solaris with bash..
When I execute the first line of your code, it shows:
Code:
date: illegal option -- date=last month
usage:  date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
        date [-u] [+format]
        date -a [-]sss[.fff]


Last edited by kris.adrianto; 07-16-2012 at 06:46 AM.. Reason: typo ;)
# 7  
Old 07-16-2012
Code:
month=`date +%m`
year=`date +%Y`
lmonth=`expr $month - 1`
if test "$lmonth" = "0"
then
lmonth=12
year=`expr $year - 1`
fi

L_date=$lmonth"_"$year

mv Amount.zip Amount_$L_Date.zip

Now it will work ...

but from your script we are getting previous month as 6 not 06..
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