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Old 04-19-2008
appending variable number of files
In a particular path of a server I have number of files.The files are generated every date with a date_mth stap on this.There are different files for different clients.
For example in /data1 path i have
X_0416_Score
Y_0416_Score
Z_0417_Score
X_0417_Score
A_0417_Score

If i will run the script for 16-apr-08 it will append all the files for that date and produce a single file named multi_client_score.dat
There may be varibale number of files for different date.I just want to append all the files with the date_mth stmap which is same as today's date month stamp.
please suggest me a script how to do this.
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Old 04-19-2008
Code:
cat *_`date +%m%d`_Score >multi_client_score.dat

... assuming you can just concatenate the individual files.

date +%m%d prints the month and day of month; the backticks allow you to use that value in another command. The wildcard *_(date)_Score would match all the files for the given date, based on the examples you provide.
 
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