Move files between dates

[spookie]

Hi,
How can i move files between specific dates ?

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[p5wizard]

Please explain more.

Or do you mean how to change the modify-date of a file? See "man touch".



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spookie]

Hi p5wizard,
I am having certain files starting from 10-Apr-2007 till date. I have to move files having modification date till 1-may-2007 to move to archive folder.
How can i acheive this besides using

mv file1 file2 ... /archive

Thanks in advance.

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[Mike042]

Hmmm, tricky. It is much easier to move files between specific filesystems! (Sorry, I just couldn't resist that comment)

Here's a (better) thought:
'touch -t' a file (FILE-A) with one date (& time) and produce a list of files newer/younger than it. (see man find) then 'touch -t a file (FILE-B) with another date (& time) and remove from your list any files newer/younger than this. The resulting list of files should be those between the dates of FILE-A and FILE-B.

A second idea:
Convert the dates to 'number of days ago' and use the find -mtime with plus (+) and minus (-) values.

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[spookie]

Convert the dates to 'number of days ago' and use the find -mtime with plus (+) and minus (-) values.

Sorry mike, but can you elaborate on this more?

Thanks



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[Mike042]

If today is 08-May-2007, then 10-Apr-2007 was 28 days ago and 01-May-2007 was 7 days ago. Using 'find' look for files that younger than 28 days (-mtime -28) and are older than 7 days (-mtime +7).

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[p5wizard]

So the whole "find" command to move those files

find /your/data/dir -type f -mtime +7 -mtime -28 -exec mv {} /some/other/dir \;

see (and read! ;-)) the man page for find.

look for other "find" threads in this forum for more info, especially if the dest dir is a subdir of your data dir, in which case you'll need to -prune also.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spookie]

Thanks for the help guys.



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