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Old 08-31-2008
MartyIX MartyIX is offline
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this script should find files in tree structure $whereToFind that are less than 5 days old + copy them to $path_to_specific_folder

$path_to_specific_folder="$HOME/myPhotos";
$whereToFind="/"
find $whereToFind -type f -name "*.orf" -mtime -5 -exec cp {} $path_to_specific_folder ";"