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Old 01-12-2005
finding files only minutes old?
I have files that are being created in a directory constantly.
I want to be able write a script that would check this directory every 15 minutes and copy only the files that were newer than the files that were copied the previous 15 minutes. On linux, I found this to be as easy as running the find command; however, I am trying to do this on a old sco unix machine. The version of find on the old sco machine is not capable of finding files only minutes old. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Old 01-12-2005
This actually is a faq, but it wasn't in our faq on the find command. I just corrected that. So see: advanced/complex uses of the find command
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Old 01-12-2005
Perderabo,

Thank you. I was able to write a short script to perform the task I needed with the info form the faq link.
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