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rbatte1 was using backticks ` whilst you replaced those with the apostrophe (or single quote) ' . The meaning of both is remarkable different - the former introduces command substitution, the...

Well, you almost have it. Your logic just needs to extend and think "I can get the names of the files, now I need to copy each on in turn to the target area." This is repeating a process in a loop....

Doing date delta can be done in many languages, but for shell the easiest is the GNU date (which you can add to your system, perhaps as a user local executable) or you can search here for my tool...

what about perl in HP-UX?


find . | perl -ane 'chomp($_); $bef = time() - (5 * 60); $a = (lstat($_))[9]; if ($a > $bef) { print $_, "\n"}'

I would use perl too, but to get the required start time. We can then create a reference file and use find based on that to select files.

Assuming you can't just use "date +%s", something...