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01-19-2013

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Thanks for the replies.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RudiC

Wouldn't that be a rather arbitrary date, depending on when you run the command? Mayhap it's wiser to use creation or modification date for those files?

Yes you are probably correct, creation date would probably be the best.

@Don Cragun
Thanks for your advice, unfortunately most of it is completely over my head - hence why I post on here for help - I am not an IT professional Smilie

The idea is that a pdf will be produced by front-of-house staff from a word document that is populated from an MS Access application Smilie

using a virtual cups-pdf printer on my ubuntu server. The pdf will then need to have the characters added by the pdf printer removed, the creation date added and moved to a new directory. From the new location the pdf will be edited by a user (me) on a tablet pc (probably an iPad Smilie

) and then attached back to the MS Access record. I was planning to run the script that alters the pdf filename every 30secs or so as a cron job from a unprivileged user home directory. Hopefully this all makes sense?

I am open to better suggestions if you have any Smilie

Thanks

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