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Old 04-08-2007
How can I use pipe command ?
Hi My friends

I have used this command to find files are modified within the past 24 hours

and then many files are shown but I want transfer all these files to special directory by using pipe .

can any one tell me what is the next step ?
# 2  
Old 04-08-2007
xargs is the easiest way to handle this...
Code:
find_command_here | xargs -I{} mv {} /target/dir

Cheers
ZB
# 3  
Old 04-08-2007
so my command will be like this :
find_command_here | xargs -I{} mv {} [/target/dir] --->[is this my directory that will be transferred to it all that files]

and what is meant by -I{} and mv{}?

mv :to move files but mv{}

thanks
# 4  
Old 04-10-2007
thank you my friend

that command it is working finally after many trying but how can I let that command to work in specific time automatically?

thanks
# 5  
Old 04-10-2007
What do you mean by specific time? Does it mean that it has to run at a specific time of the day or something? To do any sort of scheduling on unix, you can use cron. Check the man pages of cron and crontab for details on how the job can be scheduled.
# 6  
Old 04-10-2007
yes that is my mean, how can I run that command in specific time ? let me try my brother

my regards
# 7  
Old 04-10-2007
Put it in as a cron job.

http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html
 
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