Shell Programming and Scripting

The pre-touch file method.

1. Manually create a file older than the last unretrieved file using "touch -t"

Code:

touch -t <MMDDhhmm> my_old_touch_file

Code:

touch my_new_touch_file
find . -type f -newer my_old_touch_file \! -newer my_new_touch_file  | cpio ....
mv my_new_touch_file my_old_touch_file

If I understand the problem correctly, you only want to copy new files.

1). Manualy do a list of your directory and direct it to a file.
ex:
ls > filelist.txt
2). In your script, replace the find with this.
ls > filelist_new.txt
**** The below should appear in a loop
diff filelist.txt filelist_new.txt | grep -v 'file2' | grep '>' | awk ' { print $2} '
*****
example:
for FileToCopy in `diff filelist.txt filelist_new.txt | grep -v 'filelist_new.txt' | grep '>' | awk ' { print $2} '`
do
cp $FileToCopy <where ever it goes.
done
cp filelist_new.txt filelist.txt



Every time you run that script, you will only pick up new filers.

;o), I only tested the diff part of this script. But, it should work. This is sh shell scripting and not bash.

If your moving files, after I think about all the posts... This wont work, and I appoligize for the dumb post.

droolin

Not moving files, copying them to another location for pickup by another script.

These are good guys! I'm starting to love this forum

your other option is rsync. that's an excellent tool that allows you an unbelievable amount of control.

Hi can some one tell me the alternative for
-mmin command?
Its not working in SunOS

"find . -mmin -30". This works in other machines but not in SunOS.

Please help


Robin Paulose

-mmin -30 means 30 or less minutes.
Use touch to set an mtime on a dummy file - the mtime being 30 minutes ago.

Code:

touch -t 200903170800 dummy
find . -type f -newer dummy