Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

My OS is solaris 64 bit 10, I have many files in a logs directory where we recive 40-50 logs every day. i have last 20 days file present in this directory. I want to move each day file to a particulaar directory whose name is appended with the date of file.

eg



Code:
1.txt file date 31-jul-20122.txt file date 31-jul-20123.txt file date 01-Aug-2012
then create a directory for old files of 31-jul RIO_31-Jul-2012 and move them and like wise for 01-aug files.

I have written a scripts which is running fine for current date but i don't know how t modify it to accomdate old date.

My scripts is as below

Code:

NEWDIR=RIO_31-Jul-2012
 mkdir /ersdg3/ERS/ERS_INPUT_LOGS/RIO/LOGS/$NEWDIR
 cd /var/opt/ers/logs/rio
 touch -t `date +%Y%m%d0000` dummy
 find . -newer dummy -type f  |
 while read fname
 do
     mv $fname /ersdg3/ERS/ERS_INPUT_LOGS/RIO/LOGS/$NEWDIR
 done

Can you please help me to list all the file of 27-Jul-2012, how can i achive it


Thanks

Moderator's Comments:

Please use code tags next time for your code and data.

You should put " around $fname in case you ever get a file with a space in the name (imagine the chaos if you accidentally create a file in that dir that starts with a space character).

As for your question, check out the -mtime and +mtime arguments to find. It's not as fine control as using -newer like you are, but if you only need days, not hours or minutes, then it will do the job for you.

Failing that, create two dummy files, much the way you created your "newer" one above, then ls -t1 to sort by date and go through the files until you hit the first of your dummy files, then start processing, and stop when you reach the second one.