Batch script to sort files

Hi,
I have a bash script to sort files into "month" folders (I think I broke it now but it used to work)
The problem is that I always forget to run it. Is there a way that I can auto-fill the numbers for the month and the year and get cron to run it on a monthly or weekly bases?
Thanks
Steven

#!/bin/bash
#  mkdir /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/old-2010-08/
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*201008*" | while read fname
do
    mv $fname  /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/old-2010-08/
done

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compaqus

8/22/2022 - Mon

compaqus

11/9/2010

date='eval date +%Y%m'
will get you the date like "201008"

#!/bin/bash
date='eval date +%Y%m'
mkdir /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/$date/
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*$date*" | while read fname
do
    mv $fname  /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/$date/
done

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StevenHook

11/9/2010

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is it going to cause trouble that the destination folder is within the directory that the script is searching for files?
Should I rather move the destination?

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StevenHook

11/10/2010

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Thanks - I went with Tims with some minor alterations - I added a line so I can manually enter a date - or use the automatic one (it would be better if the automatic one could be last month so that this month's files stay where they are supposed to be - I only realised this after running it)
also fixed a typo
Thanks for the help!
Steven

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compaqus

11/10/2010

this gives you last month

date=$(date --date='last month' +%Y%m)