On 2007-09-16 17:43, Paul Ward wrote: >> But pretending ctime is creation time, which may be close enough for >> your purposes: > You're right ctim eis not creation but is close enough for my script > >> find /myth/recordings/ -maxdepth 1 -name \*.mpg -ctime -1 ! -mtime -1 -print > I did not know you could use the ! that saves one line of code ;o) > > My script so far looks like this,can someone help me on one issue. > > If a file name has a space then the script goes wrong as it interprets > each word as a file, I thought that putting the variable into quotes > would fix this but it did not, what is the answer please. > > for i in `find /myth/recordings/ -maxdepth 1 -name \*.mpg -ctime -1 ! > -mmin -1 -print` > do > /usr/bin/mencoder "$i" -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts > bitrate=800 -o $TMP/tmp.mpg > $TPM/enc_errors 2>&1 && cp -fv > $TMP/tmp.mpg "$i" > done There were some interesting suggestions with setting IFS, but you can also do it like this (if there are no newlines in the file names): find /myth/recordings/ -maxdepth 1 -name \*.mpg -ctime -1 ! -mmin -1 -print | while read i; do /usr/bin/mencoder "$i" -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -o $TMP/tmp.mpg > $TPM/enc_errors 2>&1 && cp -fv $TMP/tmp.mpg "$i" done No need to change IFS. -- Sjoerd Mullender
