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# 8  
Old 08-07-2008
The sed s command is just like in vi. s/water/wine/ would search-and-replace water with wine.

Strings between 'single quotes' are not evaluated for variables. If you use "double quotes" instead it should work:

Code:
dest=$(dirname "$file" | sed "s/${SRC_DIR}/Logs/")

# 9  
Old 08-07-2008
thanks for your help. i have a slight issue. my code is below:

CurTime=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
OVSA_DIR=/var/opt/OV/ServiceActivator/response_messages

logDir=/tmp/OVSA/OVSALogs_${CurTime}
mkdir ${logDir}

find ${OVSA_DIR} -type f -mtime +2 | while read file

do
dest=$(dirname "$file" | sed "s/response_messages/OVSALogs_${CurTime}/")
[ -d "$dest" ] || mkdir -p "$dest"
mv "$file" "$dest"
done

files are now copied in their respective folders but not in the OVSALogs_${curTime} folder
instead, they are copied to =/var/opt/OV/ServiceActivator/OVSALogs_${CurTime} folder.

The problem is in sed "s/response_messages/OVSLogs_$curTime}/". What sould i pass in place of resonse_messages in sed command here so that files are copied to /tmp/OVSA/OVSALogs_${curTime} directory

Thanks in advance
# 10  
Old 08-07-2008
Using a different separator in sed is a good idea when you are using path names, because / is obviously also present in the path names. I'm using the percent sign here, but you can use any character which is not also in the data you are trying to handle.

Code:
sed "s%/var/opt/OV/ServiceActivator/response_messages%/tmp/OVSA/OVSALogs_${curTime}%"

# 11  
Old 08-07-2008
thanks all, problem resolved
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