[gpfsug-discuss] Question about Policies - using mmapplypolicy/EXTERNAL LIST/mmxargs

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 28/12/2019 19:49, Marc A Kaplan wrote:
> The script in mmfs/bin/mmxargs handles mmapplypolicy EXTERNAL LIST file 
> lists perfectly. No need to worry about whitespaces and so forth.
> Give it a look-see and a try
> 

Indeed, but I get the feeling from the original post that you will need 
to mung the path/file names to produce a new directory path that the 
files is to be moved to. At this point the whole issue of "wacky" 
directory and file names will rear it's ugly head.

So for example

/gpfs/users/joeblogs/experiment`1234?/results *-12-2019.txt

would need moving to something like

/gpfs/users/joeblogs/experiment`1234?/old_data/results *-12-2019.txt

That is a pit of woe unless you are confident that users are being 
sensible, or you just forget about wacky named files.

In a similar vein, in the past I have for results coming of a piece of 
experimental equipment ziped up every 30 days. Each run on the equipment 
and the results go in a different directory/ So for example the directory

/gpfs/users/joeblogs/nmr_spectroscopy/2019/results-1229-01/

would be zipped up to

/gpfs/users/joeblogs/nmr_spectroscopy/2019/results-1229-01.zip

and the original directory removed. This works well because both widows 
explorer and finder will allow you to click into the zip files to see 
the contents. However the script that did this worked in the principle 
of a very strict naming convention that if was not adhered to would mean 
the folders where not zipped up.

Given the original posters institution, a good guess is that something 
like this is what is wanting to be achieved.


JAB.

-- 
Jonathan A. Buzzard                         Tel: +44141-5483420
HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.
University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG