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I'm trying to create a scheduled task that will move files over 30 days old to an archive directory. I'm going to create a Windows .bat file, but don't know Bash well enough (and couldn't find the answer anywhere else), and run it as a nightly scheduled task.

1. Search for '$targetDirectory - Archive'
a. if it does not exist, create it
b. if it does exist, do nothing
2. Move all files over 30 days old to this Archive Directory

This should be simple enough, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. Below is the code I wrote so far:

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path = "C:\Document QC\"
targetDirectory = "Input-Delete"
outputDirectory = "'$targetDirectory' - Archive"

createOutputDirectory = 0

foreach directory in $path
do
if [ $directory -ne $outputDirectory ]; then
$createOutputDirectory = 1
done

if [ $createOutputDirectory -eq 1 ]; then
mkdir $path$outputDirectory
done

forfiles -P "$path$targetDirectory" -S -M *.* -D -30 -C "cmd /C mv @FILE $path$outputDirectory"

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Thanks for the help.

-Jared

most of all what's above is not bash !?

If you want to make a .bat file, then learn basic, or whatever powershell provides...

If you want to make a bash script, I suggest you first read :
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
and of course :
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

Ok, ok, I'm going to tell you how I would do it
This might not do exactly what you want to do, so you'll have to tell us, as clearly as possible, what isn't going your way.

First of all, thank you very much for the reply. I modified the code to hit the directories I need. I tried executing in both XP, and Server 2003, and both are erroring out. I'm listing the full modified code (I tried forward and backward slashes in every combination I could think of, and nothing seems to work), as well as the errors I'm seeing. What results is a directory called $path with a subdirectory $outputDirectory that appears in the same folder the script was run in.

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#!\bin\bash

path="C:\DocumentQC\"
targetDirectory="Input-Delete"
outputDirectory="${targetDirectory}-Archive"

find $path -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname $outputDirectory || mkdir $path\$outputDirectory

find $path\$targetDirectory -atime +30 -type f -exec mv {} $path\$outputDirectory\;

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$ ./Script.bat

c:\Shared files>#!\bin\bash
The system cannot find the path specified.

c:\Shared files>path=C:\DocumentQC\"

c:\Shared files>targetDirectory=Input-Delete"
'targetDirectory' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

c:\Shared files>outputDirectory=${targetDirectory}-Archive"
'outputDirectory' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

c:\Shared files>find $path - maxdepth 1 -type d -iname $outputDirectory || mkdir $path\$outputDirectory
'find' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

c:\Shared files>find $path\$targetDirectory -atime +30 -type f -exec mv {} $path\$outputDirectory \;
'find' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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Are you using the script directly in cmd.exe (where it shouldn't work), or do you use cygwin (or any other *N*X shell emulator)?

The results are from a run in Cygwin. I am setting this up as a scheduled task in Windows 2003 though, is that going to be an issue?