[TAG] Fwd: Talkback:133/cherian.html

[Thomas Adam]

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From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22 at gmail.com>
To: TAG <tag at lists.linuxgazette.net>
Date: 6 Nov 2007 12:52
Subject: Re: [TAG] Talkback:133/cherian.html
To: The Answer Gang <tag at lists.linuxgazette.net>
Cc: udassar at jumpgames.co.in


On 06/11/2007, Mudassar Khan <mudassar at jumpgames.co.in> wrote:
> I am new one for shell programming.

And sending email, by the looks of it.  Plain text only please.  Don't
send HTML email.

> 1)       Read text file from source folder and past it in to a destination
> folder
>
> 2)       Delete previous  text file from destination folder(destination
> folder contain only one text file at a time)

These are the same thing to me:  see the mv(1) command.

> 3)       And this moving of file happened on weekly basis (after completion
> of a week new text file copied in destination folder in weekly basis  )

See cron, especially the @weekly directive for older dixie cron stuff,
although most modern distros have /etc/cron.d/weekly/ and such for
your use.  You just drop a shell script in there, with the appropriate
permissions.

> 4)       Which file will be copied in the destination folder is decided by
> week . If it is 1st week then  p1.txt  , if week 5th then p5.txt will be
> copied in destination folder.
>
> 5)       Week will be start from any date decided by us (like 14 December on
>  Fridays to 22 December Friday is 1st week  and other weeks will be
> calculated by 14 December ).

You would use date(1) for this.

Yes I am being vague, but this sounds like homework to me.  :)

-- Thomas Adam