Shell Programming and Scripting

for i in $(find /path/to/search -type f -mmin -10)
do
  if [[ -s "${i}" ]]; then
    grep "xyz" "${i}" >> xyzfound
  fi
done

/usr/bin/find: bad option -mmin
/usr/bin/find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list

$directory/$myFile

$directory/$myFile

/path/to/mynewscript $var1 $var2 $var3

my_var1="$1"
my_var2="$2"
my_var3="$3"

# touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] filename
# sets file time on a file

# find the time -10 minutes ago:
minus10()
{
 perl -e '  
 $now=time;
 $now-=600;   # ten minutes ago
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime($now);
 printf  "%d%02d%02d%02d%02d.%02d",
         $year+1900, $mon+1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec;'
}         

########################### demo section to understand code
 touch dummy
 echo 'file time for now ='
 ls -l dummy
 # change the file time on the file
 touch -t $(minus10)   dummy
 echo 'file time 10 minutes in the past ='
 ls -l dummy
############################  end demo remove after you play with it.
 
#########  Use this part plus minus10 function to find recent files
touch -t $(minus10) /tmp/dummy

find /path/to/files -type f  -newer /tmp/dummy |
  while read fname
  do
    # work with the file like ls -l $fname
    # echo $fname is new >> some.logfile
  done