Summary: Over-thinking find and mv - need a nudge

Problem
Need to move files from a list of directories, rename them.


Solution
Use a for .. do .. done loop inside the for .. do .. done loop.  And using
basname and dirname.

Credit to Ric Anderson, Steve 'SunMan', Michael Hocke.

Ric Anderson gets points for going above and beyond, providing a working
example.  Which was appreciated.

for D in `cat ${DIRECTORY_LIST}`
do
  #find ${D} -type f -maxdepth 1 \! -newer ${TIMER} -print  -exec mv -v "{}"
${DESTINATION} \;
  for file in `find ${D} -type f -maxdepth 1 \! -newer ${TIMER} -print  `; do
    echo file=${file}
    target=`basename ${file}`
    dir=`dirname ${file}`
    parent=`basename ${dir}`
    echo dir=${dir}, target=${target}, parent=${parent}
    echo would mv ${file} ${parent}-${target}-${NOW}
  done
done


Bill Fiore

I have had troubles with this part....
-exec mv -v "{}"

as the braces dont alwayz give the desired result...depending on your shell
and some other stuff
especially if ya use {}'s more than once

so now i do

find /directory -options "filename wildcard" -exec foo {}

where foo is an executable sh script
e.g.

#! /bin/sh
mv $1 $1/date-time-stamp

dont forget to chmod foo as executable



Hugh Sasse

> I think I've been "nerd sniped"

Haw!  http://xkcd.com/356/

I know I have been.  "Hey, Brian, we have this problem ..."  It's like
throwing steak at my dog.


> I think -prune should do that (with a bit of fiddling)

-prune is to avoid sub-directories?  I can assume there are no
sub-directories.  Something to keep in mind, however.


> touch should allow you to create a file with a timestamp of whenever.

Yes.

I needed 'fifteen minutes before current time'.  I couldn't make that work in
shell, so 'borrowed' an example from the web.


> I wonder if this is a DOS attack waiting to happen though?
> Would it make sense to xz the files when storing them?

In this particular case, probably not, and no.

Not a potential DOS ...

* This is not a public FTP server.
* The number of actual files won't increase, just where we are putting them
after the vendors upload them.
* All 'ftp'd files are deleted when seven days old.

We're quite clear to the end users this is not file storage, but file
transfer.

And if I archive the files the - in this case - EDI tool that downloads them
won't know what to do with them.


Thanks to all for the assist.

~brian

Brian Dunbar
Systems Administrator

Plexus Corporation
Desk: (920) 751-3364
Cell: (920) 716-2027
email: brian.dunbar@plexus.com
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