Shell Programming and Scripting

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Hi,

Nice scripts ..but upon execution it is creating folder named my files in /tmp directory and inside that directory no tar file is there...something missin..!!

crontab -e.

I already gave you a link to the man page in your other thread.

Good luck. If you run into difficulties, please ask.

Hi,

can u provide me the script also so that i can execute the below command after every 3 hours in a day..

Code:

find /home/Administrator/files -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3 | while read file
do
  cp $file /tmp/myfiles
done
tar -cvzf myfile.tgz /tmp/myfiles

You already have the script.

The command you are looking for is crontab -e.

I already gave you a link to the man page in your other thread.

Good luck. If you run into difficulties, please ask.

Hi ,

Can you plz provide the shell script of corn so that this below command run in every 2 hr in a day..the command is

find /home/Administrator/files -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3| while read file
do
cp $file /home/Administrator/output
done
tar -cvzf myfile.tgz /home/Administrator/output


---------- Post updated at 12:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:21 PM ----------


Hi ,

In the script of urs that is

-mtime -3| while read file
do

the file is variable or what....?