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UNIX AIX
1

We have a scripting requirement,
Background:
On a particular path, we compress a load of log files into tar.gz.
This is done on an hourly basis throughout the day and it produces files of the following format,
2005-08-05-00-021031.tar.gz as an example. This is done by a script.

We need:

To uncompress them for a particular day. For ex, if we give 2005-08-05 should uncompress that days tar.gz's
to somewhere safe (possibly specified in as an argument).

Any thoughts?

Regards,

2

Assuming you want to pass in the date and the destination path as arguments:

DATE=$1
DESTDIR=$2

for ARCHIVE in $DATE*.tar.gz
do
    tar --directory=$DESTDIR -xf $ARCHIVE
done
3

file compression is by gzip ... wht about the gzip .. (your script nowhere unzips the files )
and also .. it is like each file is TAR'd first and then each one gzipped, using a script and this happens every hour for a given day.