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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying a files from a filter list and creating their associated parent directories Post 302418470 by hunter55 on Tuesday 4th of May 2010 11:07:29 AM
Old 05-04-2010
Copying a files from a filter list and creating their associated parent directories
Hello all,

I'm trying to copy all files within a specified directory to another location based on a find filter of mtime -1 (Solaris OS). The issue that I'm having is that in the destination directory, I want to retain the source directory structure while copying over only the files that have been modified within 24 hours (so cp -r option is out).

For example, if I've got the following directory structure as my source

Code:
/datafiles
/datafiles/a/a1.txt (mod 12 hours ago) 
/datafiles/a/a2.txt (mod 36 hours ago)
/datafiles/b/b1.txt (mod 36 hours ago)
/datafiles/b/b2.txt (mod 12 hours ago)

And my target is /modfiles, then after the copy I would want the following:

Code:
/modfiles/datafiles/a/a1.txt
/modfiles/datafiles/b/b2.txt

I'm trying:

Code:
find /datafiles -mtime -1 -exec cp '{}' /modfiles \;

I'm trying to avoid having to use TAR for this to maintain the directory structure but it's starting to look like my only option. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Last edited by Scott; 05-05-2010 at 05:25 PM.. Reason: Code tags please...
 

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ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)

NAME

       ecaccess-file-move - Move or Rename ECaccess Files

SYNOPSIS

       ecaccess-file-move -version|-help|-manual

       ecaccess-file-move [-debug] source-ecaccess-file target-ecaccess-file

DESCRIPTION

       Allow moving an ECaccess File. When the move occurs within the same ECaccess File System then it is a rename. When the move occurs across
       two different ECaccess File Systems then first a copy is done and then a delete of the original file is done (e.g. similar to ecaccess-
       file-copy ... -erase).

       The source-ecaccess-file and target-ecaccess-file are in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File
       Management" section of the "ecaccess" guide for more information on the ECaccess File System.

ARGUMENTS

       source-ecaccess-file
	       The source ECaccess File name.

       target-ecaccess-file
	       The target ECaccess File name.

OPTIONS

       -version
	       Display version number and exits.

       -help   Print a brief help message and exits.

       -manual Prints the manual page and exits.

       -debug  Display the SOAP messages exchanged.

EXAMPLES

       ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt ec:test2.txt

       Rename the test1.txt file in the ECFS directory of the authenticated user in test2.txt.

       ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt home:test2.txt

       Copy the test1.txt file from the ECFS directory of the authenticated user to the test2.txt file in the $HOME directory of the authenticated
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SEE ALSO

       ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file-
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