so i received the above files on 10 & 11th of June.
we can receive files in any format , either YYYYMMDD or DDMMYYYY.
Okay, now I'm a little confused as you say the files are one thing then your format is another.
I think it safest to assume you really mean it's either YYYYMMDD or MMDDYYYY
Consider this rather bald code:-
The last bit looks frightful but it's really just glueing the various variables together. It is looking for files in the current directory matching the two expressions. Looking at the first one, we have:-
? representing any single character
UTO_ as literal text
?? any two characters
_ as literal text
${Last_Y}${Last_M} being the value of the two variables. The braces explicitly mark the variable names
[1-3][0-9] literal character 1 followed by any character from the range zero to nine, i.e. the day is 10th to 39th (if they exist
.TXT as literal text
Apart from calling the date command, these are all processed within the shell, so if you have lots of files, you don't have the overhead of repeatedly calling external programs which can slow you down considerably.
Does this get you somewhere towards your need? Apologies if I've missed the point.
There seems to be a lot of complicated processing going on for something that seems pretty simple. I'm also not sure that I understand which files are to be moved. If you run your script on the last day of July, is it supposed to move files dated June 10-30, or files dated July 10-31?
I think you said you want to move June files if you run it in July, so try something like the following:
If you want it to remove July files when you run it in July, remove the code in red and change previous in the comment to current.
This was tested with ksh but will also work with bash or any other shell that supports POSIX shell parameter expansions, command substitution, and arithmetic expansions. If the echo shows that the right list of files are being passed to mv, remove the echo on the last line of the script to actually move the files. When running this script any time in July 2014 with the list of files you provided in the 1st message in this thread, the above script produces the output:
If there are too many files to move, the mv could fail due to ARG_MAX limits. If this is a problem in your situation, there are several ways to work around it.
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