Scripting question

[Gwyd10n]

Greetings all..

I am not sure if this is the right place for this or not so here goes...

I am working on a script which needs to be able to look in a directory for files created that day and copy them elsewhere. The name format of the files is the same execpt for the last 4 characters which are random numbers so I need to be able to pull based on date.
Any ideas as to the best way to handle this?

would 'find' be the way to go or should I use something else?

[msalerno]

You could use find. You will want to change the ok to exec once you get everything working, but the below line will:

-type f - Find regular files
-daystart - measure time from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago.
-mtime - last modified x days ago - also check out ctime, atime
Then of course, it moves the files to /tmp

You would need to run this command at 12:00am, but it should do it.

find . -type f -daystart -mtime 1 -ok mv {} /tmp \;

[Gwyd10n]

You could use find. You will want to change the ok to exec once you get everything working, but the below line will:

-type f - Find regular files
-daystart - measure time from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago.
-mtime - last modified x days ago - also check out ctime, atime
Then of course, it moves the files to /tmp

You would need to run this command at 12:00am, but it should do it.

find . -type f -daystart -mtime 1 -ok mv {} /tmp \;

Ok this works, after a fashion, it is prompting me to ok the copy. I need it to be automated as I want this to run in a nightly cron job...

[teknomage1]

from man find:

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 -ok command ;
       Like -exec but ask the user first (on the standard input); 
       if the response does not start with `y' or `Y',  
       do  not  run  the command, and return false.