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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to tar, compress and remove files older than two days Post 302309505 by edr on Wednesday 22nd of April 2009 04:55:38 AM
Old 04-22-2009
Question
Hi.

Thanks a lot for helping me.
There is one thing I do not understand.
I 've four wav files with a different date.

-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 258904 Apr 22 09:53 3210223758_73072441618_20090415151440972.wav
-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 192504 Apr 21 09:53 3210224056_73073919768_20090418102231949.wav
-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 258904 Apr 20 09:53 3210223758_73072441618_20090415151440972.wav
-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 192504 Apr 19 09:53 3210224056_73073919768_20090418102231949.wav

Using the recommended commands in my test scrip have no making any sense.

find ${MAIN_DIR} -name *.wav -mtime -3 > FILE_LIST
or
find ${MAIN_DIR} -name \*.wav -mtime -3 -exec mv {} \;

-mtime -3 or -mtime -5 or -mtime -10 makes no difference.
The result is that all files are compressed and removed instaed of the files of three days old.

Best regards.
Eddy.
 

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sid2wav(1)							   User Commands							sid2wav(1)

NAME

       sid2wav - output wav files out of sid files

SYNOPSIS

       sid2wav [-commands] <datafile>|- [outputfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Sid2wav	is  a  synthetic waveform generator from sid files, named after the Sound Interface Chip found in Commodore 64 personal computers.
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COMMANDS

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       -f<num>
	      set frequency in Hz (default: 44100).

       -16    16-bit (default: 8-bit)

       -s     stereo (default: mono).

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       -o<num>
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