hey, i am trying to write a bash script to backup recent files from a directory. it works well, except that it does not copy files whose names have brackets. (i.e. banner[1].jpg) any advice on how i might be able to do this, or on code that would find and rename such files before i run my copy script? thanks! -matt my script ____ #!/bin/sh # this script will backup all files from the last month to a secondary location date=$(date "+%m-%d-%y") # mkdir backup_$date cd /Volumes/192.168.1.15/apps/GoldMine/Mailbox/Attach/ find . -mtime 1 | \ while read file do #avoiding pesky trivial output if [ "$file" = "." ] then else echo "$file" cp "$file" /Volumes/192.168.1.108/ScriptTest/backup_$date/"$file" fi done

targetdir="/Volumes/192.168.1.108/ScriptTest/backup_${date}/" for file in `find . -type f -mtime -1` ; do cp $file $targetdir done See if you have a "rename command". Otherwise you could rename with sed. file=`echo $file | sed -e 's/\[//' -e 's/\]//'`