On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:01 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > Craig White wrote, On 04/02/2008 10:49 AM: > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > > > >> cd /tmp > >> touch --date="March 20" test20 > >> touch --date="March 21" test21 > >> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 > list1 > >> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test21 > list2 > > ---- > > nice...this is very elegant > > > > I need to file this away somewhere that I actually have a chance to find > > this when I need it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Craig > > > > and after seeing Mr. Haney's message I looked at the find man page a bit... > > find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 -not -newer test21 > > same list as I got from the diff |grep, but without the need to sed, and it > _probably_ could be carefully combined with the -exec option of find to do the rm. > > Open Source Scripting on the Fedora list.:) ---- open source scripting on the list is a good way to learn. I tend to stay away from combo commands that are destructive for obvious reasons and yes, though the 'exec' command would work, and I started down the path, I know that I would prefer just to have a file list to examine first and then just cat the list to the rm command as a measure of safety. What I have also found that learning to live with grep and sed is making my life much easier rather than complicating it. Craig
