Weekly statistics using while loop.

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi people i have a situation here: my server generates a statistics text file every 30 mins. i have a script (txt2csv.sh) to convert all the statistics for the day into one csv file. Therefore i am doing a script to auto converts the text files into csv base on a weekly basis.
the script is suppose to be run using this command :
./wklystats 06 11 #base on mm dd
then it should generate a csv for a day one at a time and increase the date numbering by one and generate another csv file until the loop is completed.

#!/bin/sh

SCRIPTNAME=`basename $0`


show_help ()
{
    echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME [input month, mm] [input day, dd]"
    echo "This file is used to generate weekly statistics"
    echo ""
}

if [ $# != 2 ]; then
    show_help
    exit 1
fi

dateday=${2}
inputname="statistics-2007"${1}$dateday"-*"
outputname="statistics-2007"${1}$dateday".csv"


i=1
while [ $i -le 7 ]
do

        ./txt2csv.sh $inputname $outputname
        dateday=$(( dateday + 1))
        i=$(( i+1))

done
2

No question, no answer.

3

hmmm.. sorry

anyway my code is not working its is not adding up the date producing the right output.

4

For the date calculation problem, read this thead Yesterdays Date/Date Arithmetic

5

Thanks aigles