01-11-2008
Need Help with -newer command
Ok, here's the situation:
There's a script that runs every day on a UNIX box that collects files. The script has now been changed so that at the start of a new day, the script would create a new folder and then copy files to it for that day.
This has put me in a dilema as I have a script that would check the folder for new files and copy them to another location. I accomplished this using the -newer command. But now that the files are copied to a new folder ech morning, I can't use the newer command any more, because at the beginning of the day there won't be a file to compare the newer file to.
How can I now, check the new folder for new files and to keep checking the new folder throughout the day for new files????
I hope that made sense.
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NAME
rmm - remove messages
SYNOPSIS
rmm [+folder] [msgs] [-unlink | -nounlink] [-version] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
By default, rmm will remove the specified messages by renaming each of the message files with a site-dependent prefix (usually a comma).
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FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
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rmmproc: Program to delete the message
SEE ALSO
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