Hi i want to know is there a way to create a variable where I have a multile list of files called : audit.12 audit.13 audit.14 I need to copy these files to another directory but keeping them with a date extension I tried this ,but no luck: #!/bin/ksh DATE=`date +%d%m%y` CONO=`grep [0-1][0-9]` cp audit.$CONO /home/singgm/bckaudit cd bckaudit cp audit.$CONO audit.$CONO.$DATE Thanks in advance Hamim

A way. No error checking: #!/bin/ksh adir="/home/singgm/bckaudit" DATE=$(date +%d%m%y) ls -1 audit.*|while read file do cp $file $adir cp $file $adir/$file.$DATE done

Hi Nails I tried your option ,but it gives me erors :UX:cp: ERROR: Incorrect usage UX:cp: TO FIX: Usage: cp [-i] [-p] f1 f2 cp [-i] [-p] f1 ... fn d1 cp [-i] [-p] [-r] d1 d2

That's a very straight forward script. It works on my Solaris 8 box. I'm not an HP-UX guy The only problem I could see is if you spaces in your files or directories. Try places quotes around your variables: cp "$file" "$dir"

Hi nails ok Thanks I did however come up with this solution as well: dir="/home/singgm/bckaudit" DATE=`date +%d%m%y` for FILE in $1 `ls audit.*` do chmod 444 $FILE cp $FILE $dir/$FILE.$DATE done

If it works for you fine, but let me point out a potential problem the way you use the for loop: Your script works because you have only 1 server name per line with no white space. Let's change the algorithm. Suppose you had to read a text file a line at a time which might contain whitespace: for line in `cat myfile` do echo "$line" done suppose myfile contains this for data: col11 col22 col14 col24 If you wanted to echo just two lines, the script fails. Here's what you want to do while read line do echo "$line" done < myfile In conclusion, you are using what's commonly called a Useless Use of Cat, UUOC. For more info, take a look at this link: http://laku19.adsl.netsonic.fi/%7Eera/unix/award.html I'm not being mean - just sharing information.

guys, how about this.just see the below solution. let me know if it goes fine. #!/bin/ksh dir="/home/signgm/bckaudit" datestamp=`date +%d%m%y` ls -l audit.*|while read file do file=`echo $file|tr -s " " ";"|cut -d ";" -f9` cp $file $dir cp $file $dir/$file.$datestamp done thanks Arun S this unix location and u have placed windows request. please specify on which platform u want solution.