Slackware :: Copying Photographs Off A Camera ?

You probably own a simple camera and know that it usually stores the pictures using an ever-incrementing counter as part of the filename. so you have filenames of the sort <code><counter>.<extension>.

Say now that you have pictures from your last trip along with some earlier pics from a previous trip. assume also that the older pictures have all been transferred to the pc but you still keep them in the camera for whatever reason...

So coming back from the last trip you only want to back up the latest pics, and you want to do this through your console and not through some window manager.

What's been puzzling me is to find a quick way to cp ONLY the latest pics.

My options include:

- Use 'find' command with regex. not really helpful when regex start getting really long (indeed regex doesn't seem to be particularly useful with filenames that contain an incr. counter value - correct me in i'm wrong)

- Use find command with the 'mtime' option and copy every day of the trip individually.

- Wildcards are not really an option since don't want to copy everything.

- There doesn't seem to be a quick way to let bash know that i want to copy, say p8957.jpg to p9234.jpg through some sort of list or smth)

- A for loop in bash would be a solution but i would like to avoid it.

- Mc commander would also be a solution but i would prefer again a pure console solution..

Is there a way to quickly (=with little typing) create a list of the files that i want and let the cp command use it?