[NTLUG:Discuss] Script question

[Steve Baker]

Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> 
> hmm shell scripts yum gotta throw in how I would do it even though I see a few fine examples have already been posted.
> The following would also move the files appropriately.  Just copy and paste this in a file chmod +x it and remember to create the new backup file as /archive/domains.`date +%Y-%m-%d` and it should work properly every time.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> rm -f /archive/*.3
> let x=3
> for file in /archive/domains.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9].[0-3]
>         do
>                 mv $file /archive/`echo $file | sed -e "s/\.[0-9]^//g"`.$x
>                 let x=$x-1
>         done
> mv /archive/domains.`date +%Y-%m-%d` /archive/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.0

Just don't run this within a second or two of midnight!

I think the last line should be replaced by:

  FNAME=/archives/domains.`date +%Y-%m-%d`
  mv ${FNAME} ${FNAME}.0

I'll forgive you for your Y10K bug though! :-)

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