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Hi need to know if we can write a shell script to find files for a particular format;s ie both .csv and .txt in a particular folder and then copy them to a new folder on a dialy basis. Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?

Thanks,
Sandeep

You can build a script around the command below and schedule it using some scheduler like cron.

Code:

find ./ -name "*.txt" -exec cp {} newfolder \;

Thanks. But need to to find both .txt and .csv files

Thanks,
Sandeep

Play with patterns like the one below.

Code:

"*.[ct][sx][vt]"

This will work if you don't have any file with extensions
.cst
.cxv
.cxt
.tsv
.tst
.txv

Can you please help me put this together in the find command and alos explain this a bit.

It will helpful.

Thanks,
Sandeep

Code:

find ./ -name "*.[ct][sx][vt]" -exec cp {} newfolder \;

This command recursively finds from the current directory and subdirectories, files with names as per the below criteria.

After . the first character must be c or t (For .csv and .txt files)
After . the second character must be s or x (For .csv and .txt files)
After . the third character must be v or t (For .csv and .txt files)

Anyway, other combinations will also match (like .cxt) which I mentioned in my previous reply.

The exec in the above command copies all the found files (i.e, all .csv and .txt files we need) to the directory called newfolder.

Note: Better to have newfolder outside the current directory and not as a subdirectory in the present directory.

You can use
if [ -e ./OrigLocation/*csv ] && [ -e ./OrigLocation/*txt ]; then
.....
.....
else
....
....
fi