AIX file read for file name script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi al,

Im trying to write something to read a date file and append each date to my file output name.

Datefile:

20091001
20091015

Final output file I would like is:

DATA_20091001_20091015.xls

The script Im trying, but not working, is


n=`wc -l < dates_yymmdd.txt`
i=1
while [ "$i" -le "$n" ]
do
line=`cat dates_yymmdd.txt | head -$i | tail -1`
echo $line
datevariable$i=$line
i=`expr $i + 1`

done

cp DATA.xls DATA_`echo $datevariable1`_`echo $datevariable2`.xls
2 
while read DATE1; do
  read DATE2
  cp DATA.xls DATA_${DATE1}_$DATE2.xls
done < dates_yymmdd.txt

This is a bit over-complicated if you only have two dates in you input file. It's not clear from your question how many dates you have or how many files you want to copy.

3

Thank you sir, that worked. I'm always making things over complicated :smiley: