LinuxQuestions.org - getting last X files, by modified date to build Rsync file list

hi,

I'm trying to (r)sync the last modified x files from a win share mounted to my linux (slim version of Ubuntu)

what I basically do is using "ls -lt" (-ltrRe) to build the list, than modify the ls output using regex to taking off dirs and symbolic links, remove all un-needed info, than cut the first x lines, fix the output in order to build a file list of the needed files Last X files to sync.

the problem is that I can't get the real path of the files using the regex as "ls -lt" list the directory on a separate line and i can't seem to get it right.

Code:



SOURCE=/media/win;

NumberOfFiles=5;



$LS -ltrRe $SOURCE/ > TMP_FILE



$CAT TMP_FILE | $GREP  -v '^[d-l]' | $AWK  '{$1=$2=$3=$4=$5=$6=$7=$8=$9=$10="";print $0}' | $GREP -v '^\s*$' | $SED -e "s/^ *//" | $SED -e "s/ *$//" |  $AWK 'NR<='${NumberOfFiles}'' | $AWK -v srch="^" -v repl="$SOURCE/" '{ sub(srch,repl,$0); print $0 }' > FileList

The above works for a single folder, once there are sub-dirs inside /media/win the code

Code:

$AWK -v srch="^" -v repl="$SOURCE/" '{ sub(srch,repl,$0); print $0 }'

is only adding the base path $SOURCE/ which is wrong.

any help ?

thanks,
Nadav

Ps i use bin files as variables such as $AWK as I plan to port the script, but they all link to the /bin/XYZ of ir