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Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Can any one guide me how can i accomplish this by script

i continuously receive files via our ftp server into a certain folder is there a way i can take those files cat it to a new file by hour and create a new file when new hour starts?

2

Put this in a script:

#!/bin/sh
## newfile.sh

/bin/cat /path/to/ftp_folder/* > /path/to/newfile_directory/newfile_`/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M`.txt

in crontab:

00 * * * * /home/youruser/bin/newfile.sh
3

this creates a new file everytime script runs i want to keep one file for each our

so file names are

07-18-11-13:18:50

07-18-11-13:23:04

so both files need to be written into the same file until the hour ends

4

Try:

#!/bin/sh
## newfile.sh

/bin/cat /path/to/ftp_folder/* > /path/to/newfile_directory/newfile.txt
5

/bin/cat /path/to/ftp_folder/* this is cating every single file

i wanna cat the files for that specific hour.