Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

["Trey Gruel" <drathos@gmail.com>]

On 9/28/06, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a
> dir according to their timestamp.
>
> man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't
> think that's what I need.
>
> Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or
> python pass that'll do it?

something akin to:

find <srcdir> -type f -mmin 5 -exec cp {} <destdir> \;

will copy all files in srcdir that have been modified within 5 minutes
to destdir.  check the find man page for other ways of checking the
files or restricting how far find will recurse, etc..

-- 
Trey
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