[NCLUG] shell scripting

[Eric Brunson]

* Michael Dwyer (mdwyer at sixthdimension.com) [010913 11:25]:
> >   i have what i believe is a simple shell scripting question. i have a
> > number of files in a directory. some of them have been modified today.
> i
> > want to copy the files that have been modified today to another
> directory.
> >
> > something like
> >
> >  for ($i in <modified today>) cp $i /some/directory
> 
> I think find(1) is what you are looking for.  I'm not all that
> familiar with find, but the man page is pretty good.  You'll
> probably want something like this:
> 
> cp ` find -moddate TODAY ` /some/directory
>    ^----  Backticks  ----^
> 

Backticks have been deprecated in all but the oldest of bourne shell
derivatives for years.  Try to start using the $( ) construct.  They
nest, are far more readable and are part of the POSIX spec.


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