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# 1  
Old 02-01-2015
Extract directory name
Hello guys.
i have several backup servers which i have to monitor them daily.
now i want an script to use the backup directory and put it in output variable.
my backup files look like this:
Code:
[ll -hrt
total 151G
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  68G Jan 23 00:21 full_ORCL_20150122_7277_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.3G Jan 23 00:24 arch_ORCL_20150123_7279_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 444M Jan 24 21:12 level1_ORCL_20150124_7281_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.3G Jan 24 21:16 arch_ORCL_20150124_7283_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 24 21:16 c-1229942357-20150124-01
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 664M Jan 25 21:16 level1_ORCL_20150125_7285_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 25 21:16 c-1229942357-20150125-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.2G Jan 25 21:35 arch_ORCL_20150125_7287_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 25 21:35 c-1229942357-20150125-01
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 870M Jan 26 21:32 level1_ORCL_20150126_7289_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 26 21:32 c-1229942357-20150126-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.2G Jan 26 21:42 arch_ORCL_20150126_7291_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 26 21:42 c-1229942357-20150126-01
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.2G Jan 27 21:16 level1_ORCL_20150127_7293_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 27 21:16 c-1229942357-20150127-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.2G Jan 27 21:33 arch_ORCL_20150127_7295_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 27 21:33 c-1229942357-20150127-01
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.4G Jan 28 21:31 level1_ORCL_20150128_7297_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 28 21:31 c-1229942357-20150128-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.2G Jan 28 21:51 arch_ORCL_20150128_7299_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 28 21:51 c-1229942357-20150128-01
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  68G Jan 30 07:01 full_ORCL_20150129_7301_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 30 07:02 c-1229942357-20150130-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.4G Jan 30 07:05 arch_ORCL_20150130_7303_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 30 07:05 c-1229942357-20150130-01
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall  16K Jan 31 21:01 rman
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 436M Jan 31 21:13 level1_ORCL_20150131_7305_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 31 21:13 c-1229942357-20150131-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1.4G Jan 31 21:16 arch_ORCL_20150131_7307_1.bck
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  11M Jan 31 21:17 c-1229942357-20150131-01

as you can see file names contain the date and the type of backup(just level and full are important to me)
now i want return the values like this:
if the backup date belong to today or yesterday and backup type was full return 10
if the backup date belong to today or yesterday and backup was level return 5
and if non of them was true return 0.

i have no idea how can:
1- put the files name in a string.
2- how can extract the last backup date and type?
3- how can compare the date with current day?

sorry for asking questions like this. i just start shell scripting but this one is kind of emergency.
thank you so much.
# 2  
Old 02-01-2015
The methods for determining yesterday's date vary from system to system and shell to shell...

What operating system and shell are you using?
What is your timezone setting?
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Ymir
# 3  
Old 02-01-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
The methods for determining yesterday's date vary from system to system and shell to shell...

What operating system and shell are you using?
What is your timezone setting?
thank you dear Don.
I'm using red hat. but i don't know what kind of shell I'm using!!
my time zone is: IRST.
date output is: Sun Feb 1 10:08:39 IRST 2015
thank you.
# 4  
Old 02-01-2015
What should your output look like?
Code:
awk -F"_" -vYstd=$(date +"%Y%m%d" -d"-4 day")\
        '$3>Ystd        {if ($1 ~ "full") printf "10"
                         if ($1 ~ "level") printf "5"
                         sub (/^.* /,"")
                         printf "\t%s\n", $0
                        }
        ' file
10   full_ORCL_20150129_7301_1.bck
     arch_ORCL_20150130_7303_1.bck
5    level1_ORCL_20150131_7305_1.bck
     arch_ORCL_20150131_7307_1.bck

My system doesn't recognize the IRST time zone.
This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
Ymir
# 5  
Old 02-01-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
What should your output look like?
Code:
awk -F"_" -vYstd=$(date +"%Y%m%d" -d"-4 day")\
        '$3>Ystd        {if ($1 ~ "full") printf "10"
                         if ($1 ~ "level") printf "5"
                         sub (/^.* /,"")
                         printf "\t%s\n", $0
                        }
        ' file
10   full_ORCL_20150129_7301_1.bck
     arch_ORCL_20150130_7303_1.bck
5    level1_ORCL_20150131_7305_1.bck
     arch_ORCL_20150131_7307_1.bck

My system doesn't recognize the IRST time zone.
Than you dear Don. as always your post was so helpful.
now i should put the [ll -hrt] result into the output.
am i right?
# 6  
Old 02-01-2015
I'm not sure what [ll -hrt]should do. Any command's result, mayhap ls -l, can be piped into that awk cmd:
Code:
ls -l | awk ' ... '

This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
Ymir
# 7  
Old 02-02-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
I'm not sure what [ll -hrt]should do. Any command's result, mayhap ls -l, can be piped into that awk cmd:
Code:
ls -l | awk ' ... '

thank you dear RudiC.
i use your command and make this script but it wouldn't work.
whould you please take a look at it and tell me where i did wrong?
Code:
output=$(ls -l $1) 
"output" | awk '-F"_" -vYstd=$(date +"%Y%m%d" -d"-4 day")\
        '$3>Ystd        {if ($1 ~ "full") printf "10"
                         if ($1 ~ "level") printf "5"
                         sub (/^.* /,"")
                         printf "\t%s\n", $0
                        }'

I'm so sorry for asking such a stupid question but i really need to make it work until tomorrow.
Last edited by Ymir; 02-02-2015 at 01:57 AM..
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