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Cool, I remember this in Solaris. I should have mentioned that too. SB you seem to be the guru in these parts. Cheers Ron Holmes

Thanks SamBones. I realised the issue with 14 days exactly after my first trial a few weeks ago. As it turns out, I meant to use -mtime -14, but was originally using -newermm <testFile> which I was touch -t to 14 days ago. But this then presented issues with month boundaries etc. Thanks for...

Thanks dickiebird. Unfortunately this didn't work but thanks for giving me a little hope. SamBones, your method is the one that works. I had been trying all sorts of things including xargs echo \&quot; etc. I should have realised sed would do the trick. Of course knowing that ^ and $ would...

This may help you. In OS X, there is a preference for alert sounds in general. I have changed my alert sound to a different one and done the echo &quot;\a&quot;. The alert sound I chose was played. I chose a different one and that sound played. So perhaps on your unix platform (OS X is BSD)...

Hello. I have a problem with spaces in file and directory paths that tar won't handle. I need to back up files that have been modified in the last 14 days and I use the following command to find them and tar them. However, quite a few files have spaces in them and they don't get backed up. I...