Re: rename based on file name

On 3/26/2008 7:16 AM, tcdrake wrote:
> I have a couple of scripts which for the most part work but I need to
> change it up a bit based on new requirments. Here is what is currently
> happening.
> 
> Get 80 zip files in named yyyymmdd-(location).zip
> Unzip each zip to a folder based on location code in zip name.
> Rename the files to include yesterdays date.
> Zip up files and move to anyother directory based on location code.
> 
> All the above works fine if I only get one zip file per location per
> day. This is an issue when I get more than one zip file per location.
> So if I get 20080323-1.zip and 20080324-1.zip because the code I am
> using will just unzip the first one then unzip the second to the same
> folder which will over write the first ones before I am able to rename
> them.
> 
> What I need to do is unzip and rename the files based on the date of
> the zip file then zip all of the files into one zip based on
> yyyymmdd.zip.

This is a totally inappropriate application for awk. Yes, you can probably
hack
something together in awk to achieve your end result, but you could do
that with
an assembly code program too and that'd also be a poor approach. You
should be
doing this in whatever scripting language your OS supports. Post to an
OS-specific NG (e.g. comp.unix.shell if you're in UNIX or can download
cygwin
for Windows) for a good solution.

	Ed.