Script to move the files whith configurable days

Hi,

I am new to unix and was planning to write a script that will will move files which have a datetime >= currentdate-N from a source to destination folder. All configuration should be done through a properties files. In the form of input in the configuration fie the parameters would be

1) Configurable N days value(right now assume it as 10 days)
2) source folder
3) destination folder

and the final resultant would be The old files are moved, please guide me on this...thanks in advance..!!


the thing that I have tried for this one is......

find /basedir/sourcefolder -mtime +10 | xargs -I {} mv {} /basedir/destfolder

It will get the 10 days older files and move the files from one location to another.
you can get 10 as argument or read from the file..but still it is not that the above configuration file that I want ...could you please guide me on this ..!!

As it stands that will move files as well as directories - is that want you want? If it is jusrt files add a -type f to the find parameters. As for the variable number of days ... replace the literal 10 with that of a variable that holds the value read from your configuration file (or a suitable default if no value found).

Hi SimonJM,

Thanx a lot ,I request you if you can show me how to read the valuse from the configuraton file itself in detail with the structure of configuration file plus main script file ...!!

It all depends on what you have, if anything, what you want and need in terms of usability (both in this script and also with any update function you may wish for).
A very simple way is to parse the config file using grep, looking for the keywords and then awk (or cut) to pull out the value. So, if your config file contained DAYS=8 on one line, you could use something like:

which would pull out the value in the config file, if found, and then assign a default value (of 10) if not value was found.
The location of the config file would be, of course, up to you and the script would also handle it not being found in a manner you decided - maybe by letting it fall through and use all the default values.