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

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

· Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> · maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>:

>>>> How did you use it?
>>>>       
>>> $find ~/<music> (-type f, -fstype mp3) (-mtime, -mmin,
>>> -ctime) (72, 3, 4810, whatever) -exec cp {}
>>> ~/<music-bkp> \;
>>>     
>>
>> Well, actually, I don't wonder that *this* command did not
>> work. That's not at all even *close* to legal syntax.

> Well, I think that by the parenthesis Mr. Wexler  wanted to show he had
> tried all the variations, not that it is the exact command.

Ah, I see. I was interested in the exact command, not something
which closely describes what he did.

> I was also 
> very pissed off when I had to discover that the "find manual page" isn't
> very correct. It never made clear that "-ctime 3" means "now plus 3
> days" and "-ctime -3" means "now minus 3 days".

Yeah, this also took me a very long time to get used to. Also
it took me quite some time to understand, that "+3" and "3" isn't
the same.

Alexander Skwar
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