What Will This Return?

From: "Will" <wisaunders@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 29 Mar 2007 10:58:55 -0700

I do not have a UNIX enviroment to test in and I am a windows
developer. Please help me with this simple question.

Thanks,
Will

NonEmptyFiles=$( find /usr/edit/*.phy -type f -size +0 )

If I have two files (/usr/edit/01.phy & /usr/edit/02.phy)
If I execute the statement above from user/bin will it return:

/usr/edit/01.phy
/usr/edit/02.phy

OR

01.phy
02.phy

So later when I refernce the files from user/bin do i need to do this:

for EachFile in $NonEmptyFiles
do
TimeStamp=`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`
cp $EachFile $EachFile$TimeStamp.dat
done

OR

for EachFile in $NonEmptyFiles
do
TimeStamp=`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`
cp /usr/edit/$EachFile /usr/edit/$EachFile$TimeStamp.dat
done

.

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