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could you please give a help on writing a shell script that will move from folder1 to folder2 on an houlry basis and re_name the folders into folder2 as "%Y%m%d%hh24"`

What have you written so far?

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#/bin/sh

cd
. ./.profile

cd /baksett/media/orgdata/backup

today_hour=`date +"%Y%m%d%k"`

mkdir $today_hour

mv b*.dat /baksett/media/orgdata/backup/$today_hour

cd /baksett/media/orgdata/backup/$today_hour

ftp -ni 10.20.0.18 <<EOF
user lio test
binary
mput b*.dat
quit
EOF

>>>i got nothing for now

Nothing where? In the newly created folder or at the ftp side?


Try adding set -x as the second line of your script and then run it, that'll let you see each line as it's being processed, you may get a clue.

in the newly created folder

Note using "%k" almost never makes sense (while "%H" does) and since you 'mv' files instead of using 'cp' there may be nothing left to move?..
To see what a script and subsequent commands actually do execute in verbose mode:

and check the output. If unsure post everything [code]and between BB tags[/code].

i tried to put event the tags and i still don't get an ouput
Thx

We can't read minds nor look at your terminal window: post complete output and between BB code tags.

I would try ftp command on local host. For testing