help with a little script

mabus · *nix forums beginner Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

Hi there,

i need someone to help me with a little script i have to run in my
machine:

each day a process generates more than 5000 archives in a directory and
i need to move all the archives (1 day old) to another directory, and
make a tar file with them; if the archives have a name like this:
*YYYYMMDD*, how do i create a script that moves them and make a tar
with this format *YYYYMMDD*.tar ???

tks
Mabus

J. Lievisse Adriaanse · *nix forums beginner Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 6

What kind of script do you want? Perl or SH or what ?

Jasper

On 30 Jun 2005 05:46:08 -0700
"mabus" <mateo.monsalve@gmail.com> wrote:

mabus · *nix forums beginner Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

i need to use a sh script

J. Lievisse Adriaanse · *nix forums beginner Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 6

Ok, this one should work. I have tested it on my OpenBSD laptop, but you probaly have to adjust the variables (especially date, since it differs per OS). You have to make sure that the $DESTDIR has been created before running the script.

#!/bin/sh
#
# J. Lievisse Adriaanse, 2005, BSD-license.
# Purpose: A quick backup script for Mabus.
#

TEMPDIR=/tmp/archives
DESTDIR=/var/backup/tar/
ORIGDIR=/home/mabus/archives/
FNAME='/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d'

mkdir $TEMPDIR

cd $ORIGDIR
for i in `/bin/ls`; do
mv $i $TEMPDIR
done

cd $TEMPDIR
tar -cf `$FNAME`.tar *
mv `$FNAME`.tar $DESTDIR
rm -fr $TEMPDIR

Cheers,
Jasper

On 30 Jun 2005 06:18:57 -0700
"mabus" <mateo.monsalve@gmail.com> wrote:

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