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Hi I need to search the some ftp files created in last 24 hours and copy them to a directory with date stamp attached to it.

Iam using following command to search the files
find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -1

but now how to copy these files to some other directory one by one
with date stamp attached to each file.

Please reply ...its urgent

thanks in advance

If you just want them datstamped with today's date/time, you can add an -exec parameter to your find command to do this:

Code:

find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -1 -exec cp -p {} /some/other/directory/{}.`date +%y%m%d.%H%M%S` \;

(Untested, try it someplace safe first)
edit: Ok that didn't work
Instead, pipe the find output for a while-read loop:

Code:

find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -1 | while read filename ; do cp -p $filename /some/other/directory/${filename}.`date +%y%m%d.%H%M%S` ; done