On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, peter wrote: > and assumed that "ls -l * | grep "Mar 31" | cp /tmp/mysql/" You COULD cp `ls -l * | grep "Mar 31" | cut -c57-` /tmp/mysql or, as long as you've gotten that far, chown root:mysql `ls -l * | grep "Mar 31" | cut -c57-` There ought to be a find command to find an exact time, but I couldn't find one. -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list