Finding 5000 oldest files from a directory 1

[balajipn]

Hi,
I have a directory /logo/jpg/CustArtRepository which contains around a million files in it. My requirement is to search the oldest 5000 files from this directory and its subdirectories and move them to a archive directory. I am using the following command.

find /logo/jpg/CustArtRepository -type f -name "*" -exec ls -ltr {} \; 2>/dev/null

However, the above command take a very long time since there are nearly 10000 subdirectories under this. I would like this search to end as soon as it finishes its first 5000 files.

Is this possible? Can some one help me?


Thanks,
Balaji.

 

[feherke]

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