Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to copy the latest files via script from one directory to another. I have tried the following:

find $SrcFileDir. -mtime 1 -print | xargs cp -R $TrgtFileDir \;

and

find $SrcFileDir -mtime 1 -type f -exec cp -afP {} $TrgtFileDir \;

Neither is working correctly, so I fear I'm missing something. In the script the SrcFileDir and TrgtFileDir variables are correctly set.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

hmm, -mtime n will show files that are last modified n*24 hours ago. which means it will NOT list files modified in the last 24 hours, but files older by 24 hours. thats what the man page says. So I m just guessing probably you dont have any file that is modified 24 hours ago (not files modified IN the last 24 hours). hope you get the difference. and just guessing may be thats the problem.

linuxpenguin,

Thank you for your response! I needed to take some time to get away from it a sec and reflect.

I was successful with the following:

find $SrcFileDir -atime -1 -type f -exec cp -R {} $TrgtFileDir \;

and

find $SrcFileDir -atime -1 | xargs cp -R $TrgtFileDir \;


Thanks again!