Hi: am a Newbie and this is my first script: We were recently burgled and had our computers stolen. Easy to replace, but the data that was lost is years and years of work. I've investigated offsite data backup but it seems expensive. In any case, the data we have is not volumous. Rather, would like to send emails of files to a backup address at gmail. So, this is my plan: Run a script in cron.daily. The script should check a timestamp placed by the last occurrence of that script. Then check my home folder for files modified between that timestamp and now. Then send those files off to gmail. I have most of the pieces in place, except I can't find out how to retrieve the date modified attribute of a file. Does anybody know how to do that? I'll post the full script when I'm done in case there is anybody who would like to use it. Kindest, BG
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