ls to grep to FTP

[Guest_imported]

Each day our system produces many outputs which are copied to the /usr/spl directory.
I have been tasked with pulling out certain files and transfering them over to a PC for analysis. This is how I think I should tackle it, help with the
commands appreciated.

List files with only today's date (is this possible?)
Send the output to grep and find the files containing the keyword I'm looking for.
Join the files together and transfer that file over to the PC using FTP or Kermit.

Again, any help appreciated
Malc.

 

[Annihilannic]

Malc,

This should get you started:

[tt]----------------------- 8< ------------------------
#!/bin/ksh

TODAY=`date | cut -c5-10`
FILENAME=todays_files.tar.Z

tar cvf - `ls -l | grep &quot;$TODAY&quot; | awk '{print $NF}'` | compress -c > $FILENAME


ftp -n hostname << HERE
user username password
bin
put $FILENAME
HERE
----------------------- 8< ------------------------[/tt]

If you have any queries about any part of the script, just ask. You may prefer to use zip instead of tar/compress but you can quite happily view .tar.Z files using WinZip anyway.

Note

Annihilannic.