[plug] need a little help with our old friend Linux....

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Fri Mar 5 13:21:34 WST 1999


Pavel Franger wrote:
> 
> Dear whoever,
> 
> I'm a student and trying to battle the average problems which a normal
> users should be able to do with Linux.
> If anyone can help me out it would be greatly thanked....

> 1.By using find, I want to write a script that copies all .c files that
> have not been changed for 3 days from my home account to a directory
> called oldprog in my home account.I want to use the -ok switch instead
> of the -exec switch so that the user is prompted before each file is
> copied.

"man find" also "man bash" - slacker! (-:

remember to exclude ~/oldprog from your search

-- 
Ski!: A shout to alert people ahead that a loose ski is coming down the
      hill.  Another warning skiers should be familiar with is
"Avalanche!"
      (which tells everyone that a hill is coming down the hill).
       -- from "The Skier's Dictionary"


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