Yeah that is indeed a poor way of going about that. At least you got your problems sorted, though I'd probably write something a bit more complex to back the file up somewhere chronologically , and I'd likely do it in Java or PHP and have an SQLite DB to store details of backs ups an activity so I can easily see what's going on, why, when and where... but that's me :P<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Stuart Burns <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Lol, The money for the tea and coffee funds, easier to use the blank cheques lying around ;)<br><br>No, the purpose is to act as a (poor) interface between a MUMPS (aka Cache Intersystems) DB and an IBM iSeries.<br><br>The files concern stock that needs to be reserved and passed from the iSeries to the MUMPS system. So basically the iSeries drops a text file at random intervals onto the FTP server and then the FTP server via the batch script translates it into the correct format.<br>
<br>However I have discovered that numbering, as long as it is mmdxxxx where x is unique, is fine. The RS at the beginning has special meaning in as much as it is indicates a certain type of transaction. I therefore got the required level of uniqueness by tacking %N on the end of the date var.<br>
<br>The final code I came up with (yet to be tested) is<br><br>mount //<a href="http://10.0.0.133/mumps" target="_blank">10.0.0.133/mumps</a> /mnt/mumps -o username=xxx,xxx<br>cd /home/myftpusername/<br>DATE=`date +%m%u%N`<br>
mv RS000001.001 RS$DATE.001<br>
cp RS$DATE.001 Reserve/Backup/<br>mv RS$DATE.001 /mnt/mumps/DATA/DATA_OUT/<br>umount /mnt/mumps<br><br>And thanks to everyone who suggested an answer. I will have to take a look at printf - looks a powerful command!<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">2008/5/16 Michael Crilly <<a href="mailto:e-mail@mcrilly.co.uk" target="_blank">e-mail@mcrilly.co.uk</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree with simon. Date would be better and it would make<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
organisation easier. What does this for contain, by the way? What's it<br>
for, out of interest? Is it all the money you're filtering from the<br>
companies tea and coffee funds? :P<br>
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On 5/16/08, Simon Willett <<a href="mailto:simonw@gbitsystems.co.uk" target="_blank">simonw@gbitsystems.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Stuart,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> A hack would be;<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> COUNT=`ls RSmmd*001 | wc -w`<br>
><br>
> COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1`<br>
><br>
> # COUNT now contains the number of files of type RSmmd + 1<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> But you should really be using date +%Y%m%d you actually do want to pre-zero<br>
> the day, and you should also include the year, otherwise the process breaks<br>
> come the year end.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Hope this helps,<br>
><br>
> Simon<br>
><br>
> _____<br>
><br>
> From: <a href="mailto:chester-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">chester-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
> [mailto:<a href="mailto:chester-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">chester-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Stuart Burns<br>
> Sent: 15 May 2008 20:38<br>
> To: chester<br>
> Subject: [Chester LUG] Help with a bash script<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Hi Everyone.<br>
><br>
> I need a little help with a batch file. I have managed a bit of it, but i'm<br>
> a bit lost now.<br>
><br>
> What I need to do is<br>
><br>
</div>> 1. Looks for file RS000001.001 in folder<br>
> 2. Rename it RSmmdnnn.001 (mm=month, d= day number {Monday=1},<br>
<div>> nnnn=unique count for the day)<br>
><br>
> Now this file can appear up to several times a day (ie its going to run as a<br>
> cron job every half hour to pick up the files as they are dumped by ftp) I<br>
> can do the basic stuff with the date ie DATE = `date +%m%u` but setting up<br>
> the nnnn bit is where I am getting lost.<br>
><br>
> Any help appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Stu<br>
><br>
><br>
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