Shell Programming and Scripting

I used to work in perl but I would like to try now bash. Here's my problem

I wanted to search for specific filename (ls -ltrh) on 3 directories.. Example

Code:

ls -ltrh | grep "string"
/dir1
/dir1/dir2
/dir1/dir2/dir3

I wanted to get the result to be copied on a different directory. Sample output

Code:

/dir1
-rw-r--r--   1 user1   sysadmin    248K Sep  6 17:20 12345.dat

/dir1/dir2
none

/dir1/dir2/dir3
none

thanks

Code:

find  /dir1 /dir1/dir2 /dir1/dir2/dir3 -name "*string*" -type f -print

Because the second and third dirs are under /dir1, so you will get duplicated output on some files.

Code:

find  /dir1 /dir1/dir2 /dir1/dir2/dir3 -name "*string*" -type f -exec cp {} /different_dir \;

thank you and it worked.

how about incorporating it to a simple bash script wherein I need to input the string? Say I'm looking for A45678.dat on those 3 directories.

I would like to put only the 45678 so it will search the filenames on those 3 directories.. I would like to have an output similar to ls -ltrh. In this way I will only execute the script appending the needed string like 45678.

thanks a lot

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got it now...thanks