for YEAR in `seq 2006 2007` do for TEMPMONTH in `seq 1 12` do if [ $TEMPMONTH -lt 10 ] then { MONTH="0${TEMPMONTH}" } else { MONTH="${TEMPMONTH}" } fi echo Processing YEAR ${YEAR} and MONTH ${MONTH} for FILENAME in `ls ${YEAR}/${MONTH}/*/american-football/l.nfl.com/event-summary/*box*` do cp -p $i /tmp/HOLDING_BIN done done done