[cgjoker]

Been a while.

I am trying to come up with some code to basically move files based on a numeric flag value, (the number can be anything, 1 to ?). The flag will represent the number of days the file should be held for. Once the time has been met, the file will be moved. So for example, if I have a file that is 14_myfile.dat then the myfile doesn't get moved until after 14 days.

Here is what I have come up with so far but it isn't quite working... yet.

flag=14
count=0
for file in `ls -l *myfile*.*`
do
count=`expr $count +1`
for fileone in `find . -type f -mtime ${count} -name "${flag}${file}"`
do
mv "$fileone" /directory/b"${fileone}".dat
done
done

[cgjoker]

Here is my latest attempt and the subsequent error..
flag=10
count=0
for file in *
do
if [ -f "$file" ]
then
count=`expr $count +1`
for myfile in `find . -type f -mtime ${count} -name "${flag}${file}"`
do
mv "${myfile}" /directory/"b${myfile}""_$date".dat
done
fi
done

ERROR:
expr: 0402-050 Syntax error.
find: 0652-086 Specify a decimal integer for -mtime
Usage: find Path-list [Expression-list]
expr: 0402-050 Syntax error.
find: 0652-086 Specify a decimal integer for -mtime
Usage: find Path-list [Expression-list]

the result im looking for here is that if the mtime is 10 or older and the mtime of 10 is the same as the filename, which would be 10file then the file will get moved, otherwise the file stays in its current directory.

[cgjoker]

just realized i had the + and 1 together.. heres an updated script that still isn't quite working....
flag=10
count=1
for file in *
do
count=`expr ${count} + 1`
for f in `find . -type f -mtime ${count} -name "${flag}${file}"`
do
echo "${count}"
mv "$f" /mdm_work/cg_test/FblSrcFiles/"b$f""_$date".dat
done
done