Moving files to another dir and add the current date

[Patrick Zeitz]

Hi all,

i'm trying to moving files from one dir to another with a cron job.
In dir /fibu/prod/log/ are some logs saved and numbered from 000 to 999. I want to archive them in a special folder /fibu/arch/ by adding the date in front of the filename.

mv /fibu/prod/log/transferlog.* /fibu/arch/$(date +$y$m$d)*

But so there will be one file (theres today only one in the log dir) moved and renamed to 020429*

Any ideas? Thanks
Patrick

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Patrick

1. Move them.
2. Tar them into one file.
3. Gzip the file and add the date to its name.

HTH

Paula

[Patrick Zeitz]

The files will be needed one month unziped. And in this period it's possible that there will be more than 1.000 logs...
Do you know how i can avoid that a * will be used in the new filename?

Patrick

[Deepak Extross · Accepted solution]

Write a small script like this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
cd /fibu/prod/log
for x in *
do
y=`date '+%y%m%d'`
mv $x /fibu/arch/$y$x
done

Then call this script form your crontab.

Hope this helps.

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Hi you this following script

#!/bin/sh

Source_Dir="/fibu/prod/log"
Dest_DIr="/fibu/arch"
Date_Stamp=`date '+%b-%d-%Y'`

cd $Source_Dir

for index in `ls -l |awk '{print $9}'`
do
mv $index $Dest_DIr/$index.$Date_Stamp

done


-Niraj

[John Carr_2]

Hi

try using a shell script something like this will do it.

#!/usr/bin/ksh

for filename in /fibu/prod/log/transferlog.* ; do

newdate=$(date +%m%d%y)
newfilename=$(print $filename$newdate)

mv $filename $newfilename

done

John.

[Patrick Zeitz]

You where are all great.
Now it works, thanks a lot.

Patrick