copy files from different directories for certian dates 1

[adamsd]

Hello,

Is a faster way to copy a number of files including sub directories for a certian period eg : files from 15/12/02 to 12/03/03 to another location and maintaining the same directory structure.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers
Dexter

 

[Annihilannic]

There are some ideas in this thread we could make use of: thread60-511142 this:

[tt]touch -t 200212150000 /tmp/startdate
touch -t 200303120000 /tmp/enddate
find src -type f -newer /tmp/startdate ! -newer /tmp/enddate | cpio -vdump dest/
rm /tmp/startdate /tmp/enddate[/tt]

Obviously replace src and dest with your source and destination directories. find lists all files in src that are newer than /tmp/startdate and older than /tmp/enddate and prints them to stdout. cpio -p reads these filenames from stdin and copies them to the destination directory maintaining the diretory structure, ownership of files, etc.

Annihilannic.

 

[adamsd]

Thanks for that...much appreciated