Hi ...reading the manual for the find command i have just written a script that finds the files that have been modified since the time that a specific file was created...

find $1 -name /etc/timestamp -mindepth $1

find exactly returns what i need... now i want to copy all these files to a specific dir..

I have tried to copy them using the command
cp `find $1 -name /etc/timestamp -mindepth $1` $SAVETODIR

It propably works fine.... but still has a problem that i want to remove

If one of the files being copied is damaged or something else... then the copy stops .....
I want to handle that situation and simply skip the corrupted file and proceed with the remaining......

So i think that the best i need to do is a for loop iteration so i can easily skip the files that have some kind of problem...

Plz suggest me a way for writing that code.....

Thx alot..
Have a nice day

Man! My English is awful, but...
I didn't understand what you want.
You want to find neede file and... I don't underst& u.
May be I'm too stupid???

PS: Never use Mandrake! It's the worst distribution. Slackware FOREVER!!!

Perhaps you can try something like this


for var in `find $1 -name /etc/timestamp -mindepth $1`
do
`cp $var /path/to/copies/`
done

Even I don't know what this exactly do: find $1 -name /etc/timestamp -mindepth $1


The solution from MadNewbie doesn't work for filenames with spaces.
This is more effective. and works correctly.

find $1 -name /etc/timestamp -mindepth $1 -print0 | xargs -iXX -0 cp XX /path/to/copies/

thx a lot... now somethign more strange,.. I need to copy the files but also to create the directories if they don't exist ...cool eh?

for example

cp -(parameter) /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 $mypath

lets say that $mypath is /mnt/floppy

i want after the execution of the command written above the file to be copied to the right directory which is /mnt/floppy/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
How i can do that...copy and create the directorieds dynamically?