How to zip the files older than today's date? 1

[wesbooks]

I have a directory containing sub-directories and files. How can we locate all the files are older than today's date and zip it? If the file is already zipped, skip the file?

 

[mrregan]

find . -type f -mtime +1 -print | grep -v ".zip" | zip zipfile

 

[predamarcel]

you can create a /tmp/x file with the creation date to be "today 00:00:00", after use it the find command
like:

[mpreda web]$ touch -t `date +'%m%d'`0000 /tmp/x
[mpreda web]$ ls -l /tmp/x
-rw-rw-r--    1 mpreda   users           0 Jan 19 00:00 /tmp/x
[mpreda web]$ find /path/to/your/dir -newer /tmp/x -type f

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[LKBrwnDBA]

find /MyDir -type f -mtime +1|grep -v '.gz'|xargs gzip



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[wesbooks]

Hello mrregan,

Thank you very much for your reply. This is what I need. However, I don't know how to plug in the zipfile name. I want the file name to be the origianl file name with zip extension. e.g. abc.log -> abc.log.zip

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mrregan (MIS) Jan 19, 2005

find . -type f -mtime +1 -print | grep -v ".zip" | zip zipfile

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Use xargs as in my post.


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[PHV]

find . -type f -mtime +1 ! -name '*.zip' -exec zip {} \;

Hope This Helps, PH.
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