Shell script help required

Question

hi
scenario: A folder contains n - number of folder which contains few generated pdf reports.
NOW I need a shell script which will solve two purpose simultaneously:
1. it will create folder for each folders in the specific directory according to the month and year AND it will copy the respected folder within them including the pdf files.
2. The newly created folders will be converted into a tar compressed file.
EXAMPLES:
Say the folder name is E-SEVA wich contains folders say 10_MAR_2011,12_MAR_2011 and n_YthMonth_2011 and same for 2012 year also.Now I need folders rather a tarz file for each month say MARCH_2011,FEB_2011,MARCH_2012,FEB_2012 and so on.
kind regards

Answer 1

The following should do:
months="JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC"
years="2011 2012"
dir="E-SEVA"
cd "$dir"
for month in $months; do
   for year in $years; do
      for folder in $(find . -type d -name "*_${month}_${year}"); do
         mkdir -p "${month}_${year}"
         cp -pR "$folder" "${month}_${year}/"
         tar -rf "${month}_${year}.tar" "${month}_${year}"
      done
   done
doneNote: You cannot add files to a compressed archive.