Hi Sean,   
      
   >> Does anyone have a script that updates the magic file names for the current   
   >> nodelist and other similar files   
      
   >> I do, but for linux..I think Jame's idea of doing it in bz would be a   
   >> better solution since it could be used across all OS's though.   
      
   >> This is the relative part of my script.. it replaces the diff line   
   >> (nodediff.a??)   
      
   >> ==   
   >> # update magic.lst   
   >> # get julian date for this week   
   >> num=`date +%j --date=Friday`   
   >> pick=`expr substr $num 2 3`   
   >> # pick is last two digits of day number   
   >> lastwk=$(($num -7))   
   >> # lastweek's node number   
   >> lpick=`expr substr $lastwk 2 3`   
   >> # lpick is the last two digits of last week's daynumber   
   >> cat /home/bbbs/magic.lst |sed "s/a$lpick/a$pick/g" > newmagic cp   
   >> newmagic /home/bbbs/magic.lst   
   >> ===   
      
   >> Hope this gets you to decent start - I know sed exists for Windows, but   
   >> I'm not familiar really with the Windows date command :(  date +%j is   
   >> what gives you the julian date under linux.   
      
      
   > Thanks for that, I will start work when off work next, think this will play   
   > some part of it :)   
      
   Sounds good :)  You might also check messages in BATPOWER - Looks like those   
   people do a lot of neat stuff with batch files :)   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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