Re: [Sheflug] shell script challenge

[Jeff Hill <jeffhill [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Simon Brown (simon [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A quick and simple challenge for all the shell scripting gurus out there.
> Using any of the shells available for Debian, I would like to acheieve the 
> following to archive my mailing lists. All of my mailing list mail goes 
> into a directory called lists with the file being the list name, so this 
> list is  lists/shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk I'll be running the script once 
> a month and I'd like it to move the files into a directory called "last 
> month" The files from the month before that are already there should then 
> be moved into a directory called archive, gzipped and then put into a sub 
> directory according to month year eg  archive/2003/January/shef-lug [at] list.
> sheflug.org.uk.gz I'll be running it with cron. I've tried it before but 
> only failed miserably. Any hints?.............

Simon,
Have a look at the following:
                 http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/downloads/mail_rotate_makefile
I'm just a linux newbie but I think this is what you might be looking for.
Also,have a look at the "Pabs" link on Tom's website--there is another
script there which might be of use.
                           HTH,
                               Jeff
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