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Hi all

I have been researching awk and in my script testing I cant get awk to work in a script. I have a file that I need to move and rename into the new directory. I am pretty new to shell scripting. So any links or pointers to what I am trying to accomplish would be highly appreciated!!!!

The file I will be getting is based in this format “Recipient_<ClientId>_<CampaignId>_<PSIJobCode>_<CPACId>.<BatchNumber>.pdf”

I need to pull out the <CampaignId> and the <CPACId> of the file to rename the file to <CPACId> and put the file into a newly created directory with the <CampaignId> as the name.

I have been trying something like this to pull out the information but it doesn't seem to rename the file

Code:

new_name=`awk -F"_" '{print $5}' $fileName`
CampaignId=`awk -F"_" '{print $3}' $fileName

mv $fileName $new_name

There's probably more efficient ways than running two entire instances of awk to process one file name.

What's your system? What's your shell?

I'm not sure but I am finding out. I know its a Lunix box and #!/bin/sh is on top of other scripts that are working

LUnix is an experimental operating system for the commodore 64. Did you perhaps mean Linux?

If so there are many linux distributions. Try 'uname -a' to find out which.

Or perhaps you mean UNIX? Or just meant that you really don't know. In any case, try 'uname -a' to find out which.

LOL yes Linux.
I did find out that the System is a CentOS 5 box... default shell is BASH.

Then you can do this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

IFS="_." read RECIP CLIENTID CAMPAIGNID PSIJOBCODE CPACID BATCHNUMBER EXTENSION <<<"${FILENAME}"

mkdir -p $CAMPAIGNID
echo mv "$FILENAME" "${CAMPAIGNID}/${CPACID}"

Remove the 'echo' once you're sure it does what you want.