Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2007, 14:50 -0400 schrieb Mark Haney: > Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > > On 7/31/07, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > >>> Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2007, 11:00 -0400 schrieb Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) > > ... > >>> [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > for n in $(seq 10 40); do touch XXXX20070515_112011_942_${n}.bz2; done > >>> [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > rm XXXX20070515_112011_942_11.bz2 > >>> [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > rm XXXX20070515_112011_942_22.bz2 > >>> [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > rm XXXX20070515_112011_942_33.bz2 > >>> [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > for n in $(seq 10 40); do if [ ! -e *_${n}.bz2 ]; then echo NOT FOUND: $n; fi; done > >>> NOT FOUND: 11 > >>> NOT FOUND: 22 > >>> NOT FOUND: 33 > >>> [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > > >>> > >>> Good luck. > >> I think this would probably work except I really need to know which ones > >> are out of sequence as is, changing the filename would eliminate that > >> capability and the missing files are the ones I need. See, I'm > >> receiving the files from a separate server and they are sent to me in > >> this format. I need to know which ones I /don't/ receive so I know > >> which ones I need to have resent. Make sense? > > > > Yes. But you must have a pattern with which we can compare your received > > files. Which is the exact pattern? If you have this clear, we can > > probably solve the problem with bash. > > > > Waiting... > > Okay, here goes, the XXXX part denotes a 4 character symbol for a NWS > radar site, the 8 digits after that is the date followed by '_HHMMSS_' > of time the data was collected. The next part I'm not certain, but > believe it's the scan number of that particular radar scan, then the > last 2 digits are the part number of a complete scan. In other words, I > have a series of weather radar scans that get broken up into 'radials' > (the .bz2 files) and numbered. Our customers get fed this data through > our servers, but a couple have reported missing files. I'm trying to > track down the problem, but can't go through 2GB of volume scans every > day for possibly one missing file. > > The files are stored in directories in this format: XXXX/date/ so I have > multiple volume scans in each day's directory. > > Does this help? Barely. Mark, I do agree with the rsync solution mentioned early. But, forcing it with bash, what I would do is: 1. Obtain the daily radar sites list [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > ls -1 *.bz2|sed -e "s/\(....\)\(.*.\)/\1/"|sort|uniq > radarsites.$(/bin/date "+%Y%m%d") ...the four points are the four first characters... ...you can have a predetermined file, so you can know if you have a server missing: [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > cat radarsites.$(/bin/date "+%Y%m%d") XXXX XYXX XYYX XYYY YYYY [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > cat radarsites.official XXXX XYXX XYYX XYYY YYYY ZZZZ [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > diff radarsites.official radarsites.$(/bin/date "+%Y%m%d") 6d5 < ZZZZ ...That means: in the left file (official radar list) stays a value not found on the right file. You can play with the result. 2. Find the minimum and maximum values of each set. That is what you dont say. Is there an obligated minimum? maximum? Anyway, this is a list of your set ranges: [rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap > for a in $(cat radarsites.$(/bin/date "+%Y%m%d")); do MIN=$(ls -1 ${a}*|sort -n|head -1); MAX=$(ls -1 ${a}*|sort -n|tail -1);echo $MIN -- $MAX; done XXXX20070515_112011_942_10.bz2 -- XXXX20070515_112011_942_40.bz2 XYXX20070515_112011_942_10.bz2 -- XYXX20070515_112011_942_40.bz2 XYYX20070515_112011_942_10.bz2 -- XYYX20070515_112011_942_40.bz2 XYYY20070515_112011_942_10.bz2 -- XYYY20070515_112011_942_40.bz2 YYYY20070515_112011_942_10.bz2 -- YYYY20070515_112011_942_40.bz2 Now you have all elements to find your missing files. If there is anymore we can help with, please be clear. Good luck! ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- - Now all of us can talk to the NSA - just by dialing any number. David Letterman, on National Security Agency's eavesdropping program