On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 06:46:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> One thing I didn't make clear in my original post - it didn't seem >> important to confuse my real question which was the copy itself and >> not locating the files - but which likely changes how well some of >> these commands would work in my specific case was that the Builder >> directory actually has _many_ CSV files ut specifically I needed >> only the ones in the Correlation directories. > > Bear in mind that locate only returns files in its database, not any > created since the last time its cron job was run. Find seems a more > appropriate tool for this task. >
Good point. As I bring these files down from a bunch of Windows VMs I typically run updatedb before doing this, but find would probably be safer. Thanks, Mark
