Re: Find and copy script/piped command

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A. John Peters [mailto:ajpeters ajpconsult com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:24 AM
> > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject: Find and copy script/piped command
> >
> >
> > I am trying to copy all files changed in the last 24 hours to 
> > a new directory.
> >
> > find /home/Nursery -mtime -1
> > I want all the results copied to todays directroy
> > cp {results} /home/Thursday/
> >
> > If I have to I can tar with a z option.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
>
> Is this for backup purposes?  If so, wouldn't you want to preserve the
> directory paths?

And do you really want to copy stuff that's less than one day old?  If
you want to back up yesterday's stuff, set your script to run sometime
after midnight and use:

find /home/Nursery -daystart -mtime +0 -exec cp \{\} /home/Thursday \;

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