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Find last updated files and rename
HI
I have a requirement to find the last updated files from a directory whcih has subdirectories and inside them we have files with .txt,.doc,.xls .. extensions. i have to find those files which were updated in the last 1hr and rename the files with respective <sub-directory>_<filename> and copy them to another directory.
i'm able to browse the threads of this forum and found the code to find the last updated files.. but don't know how to find and rename in the mentioned format.

Main directory:
/dataserver/
subdirectories:200906024502,200906024503,200906024520 etc,;
inside /dataserver/200906024502/abc.txt
/dataserver/200906024520 /sample.doc
etc;

Code:
 
ts=`date +%m%d%H%M`; ts=`expr $ts - 250`;touch -t 0$ts stamp1
 find /dataserver/200906024502/ -type f -newer stamp1 -print

please help me with the script.

Thanks in advance.
-Ramesh
 
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