Newbie needs scripting help

[Jake99]

This is a great forum..wish I had found it earlier. Here is what I am looking to do. A file is created daily on my AIX server in this format - QLGYYYYMMDD. Based on what day it is I need to run a specific command on the file for the current day and output it to a file called RetLog. I will then be picking it up using FTP. If you need anymore specifics please let me know.


Thanks

Jake99

 

[vgersh99]

yeah, I need more specifics:

can you show us what you've tried so far?

thanks

 

[Jake99]

I am not really sure where to start. I am a newbie at this and would like any input as to where I should begin.

Thanks
Jake99

 

[quirkasaurus]

Jake99,

Try this one, the first line must be the first
line in the script:

#!/bin/ksh
# Go to where my files are:

cd /target_dir/

# List all my files, pipe to my processing loop.

/bin/ls -1 |
while read file_nm ; do

echo Processing $file_nm

case $file_nm in

*.dat) echo "This one is a data file" ;;
*.idx) echo "This one is an index file"
echo Maybe I want to do some more commands...
date ; date ; cat /etc/motd ;
echo terminate the switch cases
echo with a double semi-colon,
echo like this:
;;
*) echo this will be the default fall-through ;;

esac # end the switch case.

echo =================================

done |
tee /tmp/error_log

# Redirect all of our processing output to a screen
# and a temp file of your choosing.

 

[grega]

Here's your "starter for 10"

#!/bin/ksh

# set input file name based on current date
INFILE=QLG$(date +%Y%m%d)
echo Inputfile: $INFILE

# do stuff depending on which day it is
case $(date +%u) in
  1) echo "Do Sunday Stuff";;
  2) echo "Do Monday Stuff";;
  3) echo "Do Tuesday Stuff";;
  4) echo "Do Wednesday Stuff";;
  5) echo "Do Thursday Stuff";;
  6) echo "Do Friday Stuff";;
  7) echo "Do Saturday Stuff";;
esac

Greg.

 

[Jake99]

Quickasarus,
Can you give some more explanation of your post. I am still sort of confused. Thanks for the help

Jake99

 

[Jake99]

Ok I have finally figured this out and let me know if this would work to find files older then one day and copy them to a directory

find /fnsw/local/logs/qlogs/1 -name 'QLG*' -mtime +1 -exec cp {} ./retlog \;

How can I use this command to find files that are from the last 24 hours? Thanks for the help

Jake99