(If possible) instead of generating YYYYMMDD-named files, if you just generate files like /home/reports/ftp/WSB/someoutput.txt then you can simply have logrotate deal with them -- it automagically takes care of renaming them daily (or whenever you want) including compression and deleting ones that are too old (which you define). Your logrotate.conf would just be something like (see manpage for details, especially about the wildcard): 
       /home/reports/ftp/WSB/* {
           rotate 9
           compress
           daily
           olddir /home/reports/ftp/WSB/old
       }

[download]

In reply to Re: Whats a good process for archiving cron processed files? by davidrw
in thread Whats a good process for archiving cron processed files? by jimbus

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.