Greetings all!

This is my first post. I hope it's in the appropriate section. I have to format 4 years worth of awstats data "static" for a client and then move it to their new server.

I don't want to run the commend to do this 48 times. If possible I would like to use a bash script that uses the folders in a directory so the script knows which year-month to do this for me and which folder to place the output in.

The command I need to run is as follows;

In the example above the conversion will be for the 12th month in the year in 2006. The above would place the data in static_awstats. However, for the client to be able to browse this data on the new systen through awstats each year-month must be in it's own folder with the same name. For example I would like the above command to place the data in

Easy enough to do if I manually run the command for every year-month that I need. However I want to automate this using the script I hope to write.

I've already created the folders needed for the timeframe I need to use. So my question is.

Can I use the folders that I have created to run the command in a for loop to get all the pages done.

Example of my static_awstats dir;

So the script should do the following. Get the names of all the folders, run the command once for each folder it finds inserting the -month=$month -year=$year into the command for each time it's run.

I hope this question makes sense to everyone.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Sure you just need to iterate numbers. This should do the whole of 2006 though 2010 inclusive:


That's all one line which isn't nice to look at of course. If you want to look at it in a more readable form then paste it in to a text editor then replace the ; with line breaks

arizonagroovejet,

This works perfectly thank you very much. I've learned allot just from that and managed to automate almost everything else I wanted from this example. I have one final question that I'm stuck on and it seems so simple.

I now need to symlink the base awstats.domain.org.html inside each folder to index.html to complete the conversion. From the base folder outside all the year-month folders I'm using the following;

For some reason it's linking index.html to index.html and not to awstats.domain.org.html?

I've tried several diffrent methods but can't get it to work. I could do these by hand I guess since most of the rest I didn't need to.

Thanks again for your help. That taught me allot and saved me a ton of time.

Bill

Assuming you want to end up with an index.html file in each of the ${year}-${month} directories then in the directory where those ${year}-${month} directories are located do

That assumes there are only directories in the current working directory and each one contains a file called awstats.domain.org.html. You'll get errors if that's not the case when it attempts to perform the operation on things that aren't directories containing a file called awstats.domain.org.html

Your assumptions are correct. That worked perfectly. Thank you so much. I hope I can help someone here in the future.

glad to see u have the problem solved