Script to create compressed archives base on dates in folder!!!

[yoshima]

Evening all,

I am having some difficulty with a script that I need to create. I have a folder in a Red Hat system that contains wav files (alot of wav files) they have in their names a date format YYYYMMDD so I can search for them and then create a manual archive (tar.gz). The problem is their shear number of files dating back to early 2006 this would take an age.

I basically need a script that will assess the folder based on dates and create an archive for each day of the year (or for each day that a wav file is present) of the wav files.

In short put all wav files named *YYYYMMDD*.wav into YYYYMMDD.tar.gz for each collection of files dated *YYYYMMDD*.wav.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[yoshima]

This seems to do it, remove the echo to execute!!!! Many thanks to raskin.

#!/bin/bash

ls | sed -e 's/.*\([0-9]\{8,8\}\).*[.]wav/\1/' | sort | uniq | while read LINE
do
echo tar czf ${REPLY}.tar.gz *${REPLY}*
done