Hi everyone, I am currently in my first programming class and we are learning BASH, this has been the first time I have used Linux or a conjunction of it or Unix before this class. As of up untill now, I have been doing well and been able to figure it out on my own mostly. I am stuck on this on problem though. I need to make shell script that uses awk to archive my files and directories into seperate archives based on the month and year they were created on. It should also be able to take a command line arguement of a directory path to where it should be archived to. thanks a bunch for any help on this at all, thank you again.

you can use a combination of find and tar. find is to find files according to your date and tar is to archive them. check your man pages. Also google for "find tar backup files".

Thanks for that bit of info, though wasnt exactly what I had a problem with. I knew I would have to find and tar them in the script, the only thing I can not figure it out is how to make files go into a certain archive if they were made on a certain month within a certain year, I know I would need to use the find 'date' for that but, I am not sure what to do after that. Thanks though, that gives me a bit more of an idea what to do.