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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trying to Copy Files Changed Recently Post 302103617 by scotbuff on Friday 19th of January 2007 02:23:33 PM
Old 01-19-2007
Thank you

Thank you, I ended up doing something like this.


Quote:
find . -mtime -1 -type f |\
while read file
do
cp -rp $file ../${AREA}/$file
done
I have been experimenting further, what if I needed to check for directories or found a new file in a subdirectory that did not exist outside my development directory. I tried dropping the type -f from the find but I keep getting weird results. At one point I had it putting everythign where it needed to be, but an additional copy of each file was also copied to the base directory of my source directory. Somehow I thought when I first decided on this that it would be a little easier. Smilie

Last edited by scotbuff; 01-19-2007 at 03:38 PM..
 

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VIDIR(1)																  VIDIR(1)

NAME
vidir - edit directory SYNOPSIS
vidir [--verbose] [directory|file|-] ... DESCRIPTION
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited. When editing a directory, each item in the directory will appear on its own numbered line. These numbers are how vidir keeps track of what items are changed. Delete lines to remove files from the directory, or edit filenames to rename files. You can also switch pairs of numbers to swap filenames. Note that if "-" is specified as the directory to edit, it reads a list of filenames from stdin and displays those for editing. Alternatively, a list of files can be specified on the command line. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Verbosely display the actions taken by the program. EXAMPLES
vidir vidir *.jpeg Typical uses. find | vidir - Edit subdirectory contents too. To delete subdirectories, delete all their contents and the subdirectory itself in the editor. find -type f | vidir - Edit all files under the current directory and subdirectories. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EDITOR Editor to use. VISUAL Also supported to determine what editor to use. AUTHOR
Copyright 2006 by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Licensed under the GNU GPL. moreutils 2010-04-28 VIDIR(1)
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