ls, mv, & rm of two weeks old files 2

[gatetec]

I need to ls, mv, and rm if files are more than two weeks old.
There are many of archive log files with the file extension, ".arc". I want to ls, mv, and rm if 14 days have passed "as of today", and will put it onto the crontab.

Pls let me know the command (ls, mv, and rm) for the files, 14 days old.

thx much

 

[HelloNair]

The commands are below. It is better to creat a list and work on the list if you need to do all the three operations instead running find command three times.

List
find /<dir> -name '*.arc' -mtime +14 |xargs ls

Move
find /<dir> -name '*.arc' -mtime +14 |xargs mv /<destdir>/.

Remove
find /<dir> -name '*.arc' -mtime +14 |xargs rm

 

[gatetec]

ls works really well.
I will run each command separate.
This mv command returns an error. Pls let me know how to correct it. I am on 5.2.8.

# find /u02/oracle/arch/ -name '*.arc' -mtime +14 |xargs mv /backup/.

Usage: mv [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src target
or: mv [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src1 ... srcN directory
Usage: mv [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src target
or: mv [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src1 ... srcN directory

 

[khalidaaa]

Have a look into this site:

http://www.arsc.edu/support/news/HPCnews/HPCnews357.shtml

This command should work! but in case use the exec:

Then to move the files somewhere either use xargs (if available):

    find /u02/oracle/arch/ -name '*.arc' -mtime +14 -print | xargs mv /my/save/place

  or the -exec option to find:

    find /u02/oracle/arch/ -name '*.arc' -mtime +14 -print -exec mv '{}' /my/save/place ';'

  [here the quotes are used to protect the special characters {}; from
  the shell]

Regards,
Khalid

 

[HelloNair]

The following should work

for OLDFILE in `find /u02/oracle/arch/ -name '*.arc' -mtime +14`
do
mv $OLDFILE /backup/.
done

 

[gatetec]

ths so much all.
it works great!!