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Old 12-16-2012
Moving files extension one by one
Hi, I'm trying to do a script that move .Gz extension (one by one) in a new repertory called old-logs and then copy what's inside old-logs to a new.log but adding a date like this (something. gz: 2012:12:09).
thanks in advance for your answers.
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Old 12-16-2012
What have you tried so far? Where are you stuck?
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Old 12-16-2012
well i'm stuck at moving files one by one i just dont know how to do it.
what i think:
Code:
for i in */.gz
do
  mv(first (i) files with .gz in old-logs)
done

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-17-2012 at 07:01 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 4  
Old 12-16-2012
To move gz files in old-logs directory to new-logs directory one-by-one:-
Code:
for in in *.gz
do
    echo "Moving file: ${i}"
    mv ${i} new-logs/
done

To move gz files in old-logs directory to new-logs directory all at once:-
Code:
mv *.gz new-logs/

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Old 12-16-2012
if i want to move the first .gz file without knowing what its is
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Old 12-16-2012
If you want to move only the first .gz file based on modification time, then you can use ls command with -t option:
Code:
for i in $( ls -t *.gz | tr " " "\n" | head -1 )
do
   echo "Moving file: ${i}"
   mv ${i} new-logs/
done

Note: I am using tr " " "\n" to convert blank space to newline and head -1 to list only first .gz file. This method will fail if you have a file name with blank spaces in it.
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