> 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 Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
