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Thanks Salem for your quick response. It works and solves my problem now.

I need to count files existing in my current directory with the file extention of *.log.* so that I can initialise using the loop like x=0 while [ $x -lt $num ] do > $(eval echo \$$i).log.$x x=`expr $x + 1` done How can I do it please give me a quick tips.

It works. Thanks Boris for your help.

I am trying to a different number of parameter to a script and check them but I don't know where did I go wrong?. I wrote the following script test.sh #!/bin/sh count=$# i=1 while [ $i -le $count ]; do echo "parameter " $i " is " ${i} i=`expr $i + 1` done...

I have got a directory structure a/b/error, a/b/report and error directory has error.log1, error.log2...... filese and report directory has report.log1 report.log2..... and my aim is to crearte a file totalerror.log and totalreport.log in their respective directories and then move both...

I am trying to do this in a script. Thanks

Thanks gamerland for your help. It does similar work but I need to select the number of files with the generation numbers such as test1, test2 and so on from a directory where lots of othere files exists and then concatinate them to a combined file called datetime and compress the datetime...

I am very new to unix, I need to navigate to different directories and concatenate the files to one file, then compress the file and archive to another directory. I was thinking of using cat, gzip and mv commands. Please can some one give me bit of help. Thanks in advance