Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am trying to write a script to ftp and get all the files between two date/time stamps from a archive directory. I have sent an attatchment of my archive directory. With the script I intend to get files for ex: between request.log.2008-08-22-03-53-49.gz & request.log.2008-09-12-01-21-02.gz.

I searched for similiar queries on the forum but the solutions there didnt work for me. Any suggestions and help is sincerely appreciated


Thanks for your time

One quick way is to enter dates corresponding to $1, $2, $n and use that with a wildcard get. example:

./ftp.sh 2008-7 2008-8 2008-9

then inside you script:

ftp to where ever
get request.log.$1*
get request.log.$2*
get request.log.$n*

Also, I would used the logical && inside a if loop.

Code:

if [[ $list_of_files = $start_date && $list_of_files = $end_date ]]; then
       ftp my stuff
fi

I'm sure there is a more elegant solution but hope that gets you started.

Thanks for the reply,

I tried using the method you suggested, but it didnt work on expected lines.

Can you show the code that you used, and the results that you received?