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Assistance with shell script to check file type and move to a folder.

Hi,
Below is some code that I would like to implement however I am getting these errors: (what I am attempting to do is to check if a zip file has ascii files and if ascii and not binary then move the ascii files to a folder. some of the files are in xml format but are ascii and i will be moving those to xml folder.)

./dir1_zipchk.sh: line 26: ./G2007696.260_100607134807: Permission denied
./dir1_zipchk.sh: line 27: =: command not found
./dir1_zipchk.sh: line 30: =: command not found
no files



code:
Code:
for i in "/files/temp/*.zip"
do
ftype=file * | awk -F":" '/ASCII/{print $1}' 
if $ftype = "ASCII";
then
mv $i /files/ascii
elif $ftype = "XML";
then
mv $i /files/xml
else
echo "no files"
fi
done

Please use code tags.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 09-20-2010 at 11:39 AM.. Reason: add code tags
 
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