[TriLUG] Some script help

[Matt Pusateri via TriLUG]

A lot simpler to just have find +mtime script prune the directory and rsync to transfer the files as someone else alluded to

Matt 

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> On May 12, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> Bash is fine for this, but the key is to not try to compare dates. Bash doesn't do that well at all.
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> If you must compare dates in bash, let the date command convert them for you.
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> echo $((  (  $(date -d '2015-05-12' +%s)  -  $(date -d '2014-05-12' +%s)  )  / 86400  ))
> 365
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> Or if long lines are not your thing...
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> d1=$(date -d '2015-05-12' +%s)
> d2=$(date -d '2014-05-12' +%s)
> echo $(( ( $d1 -  $d2 ) / 86400 ))
> 365
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> Alan
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