[Chester LUG] Help with a bash script

[Stuart Burns]

And people, this is the kicker. It was previously (well still is till code
is proved working) running windows 95 on a p2 300 workstation with a
temperamental disk and the first q I was asked was will is will it be more
stable and secure. I had to stiffle my snigger ;)

2008/5/16 Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>:

> Lol, The money for the tea and coffee funds, easier to use the blank
> cheques lying around ;)
>
> No, the purpose is to act as a (poor) interface between a MUMPS (aka Cache
> Intersystems) DB and an IBM iSeries.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The final code I came up with (yet to be tested) is
>
> mount //10.0.0.133/mumps /mnt/mumps -o username=xxx,xxx
> cd /home/myftpusername/
> DATE=`date +%m%u%N`
> mv RS000001.001 RS$DATE.001
> cp RS$DATE.001 Reserve/Backup/
> mv RS$DATE.001 /mnt/mumps/DATA/DATA_OUT/
> umount /mnt/mumps
>
> And thanks to everyone who suggested an answer. I will have to take a look
> at printf - looks a powerful command!
>
>
>
> 2008/5/16 Michael Crilly <e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk>:
>
>> I agree with simon. Date would be better and it would make
>>
>> organisation easier. What does this for contain, by the way? What's it
>> for, out of interest? Is it all the money you're filtering from the
>> companies tea and coffee funds? :P
>>
>> On 5/16/08, Simon Willett <simonw at gbitsystems.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Hi Stuart,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > A hack would be;
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > COUNT=`ls RSmmd*001 | wc -w`
>> >
>> > COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1`
>> >
>> > # COUNT now contains the number of files of type RSmmd + 1
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > But you should really be using date +%Y%m%d you actually do want to
>> pre-zero
>> > the day, and you should also include the year, otherwise the process
>> breaks
>> > come the year end.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hope this helps,
>> >
>> > Simon
>> >
>> >   _____
>> >
>> > From: chester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> > [mailto:chester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stuart Burns
>> > Sent: 15 May 2008 20:38
>> > To: chester
>> > Subject: [Chester LUG] Help with a bash script
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Everyone.
>> >
>> > I need a little help with a batch file. I have managed a bit of it, but
>> i'm
>> > a bit lost now.
>> >
>> > What I need to do is
>> >
>> > 1.    Looks for file RS000001.001 in folder
>> > 2.    Rename it RSmmdnnn.001 (mm=month, d= day number {Monday=1},
>> > nnnn=unique count for the day)
>> >
>> > Now this file can appear up to several times a day (ie its going to run
>> as a
>> > cron job every half hour to pick up the files as they are dumped by ftp)
>> I
>> > can do the basic stuff with the date ie DATE = `date +%m%u` but setting
>> up
>> > the nnnn bit is where  I am getting lost.
>> >
>> > Any help appreciated.
>> >
>> > Stu
>> >
>> >
>>
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