Thread: Bash script to find multiples files, find the last modified one and copy/overwrite it to others loca

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to complete my Bash script to find multiples files,
then find the last modified one and copy/overwrite it to others locations..

Here's my first attempt .. I can handle the result with php this far, but wanne complete it in order to cronjob update of script serverwide
find /var/www/ -type f -iregex '.*PIE\.htc' -printf '%T@ %p %s\n'|sort -r -n

thanks

Hi,

You can use mtime option to find command

Code:

find . -type f -mtime 0 -exec mv {} /tmp/ \;

use man find

Right, but I'm still looking for the appropriate syntax to catch the first result, then copy it to others locations
( that's why I used the print )

without input sample and desire sample output we can't help you more.

right, sorry about this
there's my output for : #find /var/www/ -type f -iregex '.*PIE\.htc' -printf '%T@ %p\n'|sort -r -n

1350663880.0000000000 /var/www/site1/PIE.htc
1350663342.0000000000 /var/www/site2/PIE.htc
1350318272.0000000000 /var/www/site3/PIE.htc
1335785728.0000000000 /var/www/site4/PIE.htc
1313662290.0000000000 /var/www/site5/PIE.htc

in this example I'd like the first result to be copied accross the 4 lines afterwards

Hi,

PHP Code:

#!/bin/bash

#copy first file from list (you can increase if you want)
Number_of_files=1

# get list of file using find (modify find command as per your requirement)
File_list=(`find /tmp/ -type f -iname '*.conf' -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -r -n| cut -d" " -f2`)

# files to be cp
Destination_path="/opt/"

count=0

while [ "${count}" -lt "${Number_of_files}" ]; do

cp "${File_list[$count]}"  "${Destination_path}"
let count=count+1

done 


hi Rahul.Patil,

you can't build an array this way; what if a filename has, at least, a space in it?

Code:

#!/bin/bash

while read nm pathAndFilename
do if test -z toBeCopied
   then
      toBeCopied="$pathAndFilname"
   else
      echo "cp \"$toBeCopied\" \"$pathAndFilename\""
   fi
done < <(find /var/www/ -type f -name "PIE.htc" -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -r -n)

what I understand from «copy across» is "overwrite"... is that it, nyx?

Sure, rahul script works to copy first file in list to /opt folder ..
second script gives me a syntax error, I'm running a debian 6 server

what's the exact error message?

line 10: syntax error close to expected symbol <
( I'm not familiar with heredoc .. )

I'm looking for something close to this

File_list=`find /z/ -type f -iname '*PIE.htc' -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -r -n| cut -d" " -f2`;
#wanna explode File_list on "\n" or another char .. because it's not an Array this far
count=0;
while [ "${count}" -lt "${Number_of_files}" ]; do
#Foreach(File_list)??
let count=count+1;
cp "${File_list[0]}" "${File_list[count]}";
#Copy (overwrite) first occurence to others one locations
done;