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The task is to take the MA data for each MA for each day of a month and aggregate it into a single file per MA per month. Initially don't bother with compression. Eventually this will run as a daily cronjob,thus it must be robust and if run from a cronjob only produce any stdout if there is a problem.
Hints
Write in perl. Start from ~cottrell/bin/template.pl or ~cottrell/sumdir-regexp.pl. Use the perl opendir function to get the directory listing. Use /bin/gunzip or bin/zcat to uncompress (unzip) the files. Use stat if you need file size etc. Look at File::Copy for copying files.
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