Good Day,

I have previous written a script that allowed me to do clean up of my /var/log/messages file. The Script provides the ip address of each machine and catted the message file before it was cleaned and rotated. The file contents of the log file for each of the 69 clients as backup and lists the file as ip address.txt. This is working as I wanted.

What i want to do now is append the date that the script was run to the front of the file keeping the ip address also. This is the code I found for that.

! /bin/bash

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | \
cut -c3- | \
grep -v '^.' | \
grep -v '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]' | \
xargs -n 1 -I {} echo mv "{}" "

date +"%Y-%m-%d"

date +%Y_%m_%d

I would like to create a directory for that date and move all the files to that directory. Also I would like this to happen each time the script is run.

Is there a quick way to do this? I am a newbie so shell scripting is starting to be something I will b doing a lot of so any pointers you have will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jon.