Moving files based on time created 3

[kateinseattle]

Can anyone help me out with this?

I would like to run a cron job that will periodically move all files in a specified directory, to a seperate folder ...if the files were created above a specified date.

What I have so far is:

find ${directory} -name fimename.* -ctime +60 -exec mv {} \ archive/;

In the above scipt, I was hoping to move all files above 60 days old, with name pattern filename.*, to the directory 'archive'.

But no dice, the script does not work. It comes back as 'incomplete statement'.

Can anyone help point out where I have erred?

 

[PHV]

find ${directory} -name 'filename.*' -ctime +60 -exec mv {} /path/to/archive \;

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[Annihilannic]

To explain PHV's solution, you need to prevent the shell that is running your find command from expanding *.filename, otherwise you end up with an invalid find syntax, e.g. (preuming there are three files that match that file specification):

[tt]find ${directory} -name filename.one filename.two filename.three -ctime +60 -exec mv {} /path/to/archive \;[/tt]



Annihilannic.

 

[PHV]

Annihilannic, I also escaped the terminating semi-colon.

 

[Annihilannic]

Ah, didn't notice that.

Annihilannic.

 

[kateinseattle]

Thanks for all your tips

When I ran the script, I received the following message:

>>find: bad option filename
>>find: path-list predicate-list

Googling did not enlighten - would you have any tips why the error occured?

 

[KenCunningham]

Can you post exactly what your command was? Look as if you might have missed out the apostrophes, but there may be other culprits.

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[PHV]

A possibility is that ${directory} has no value.

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[kateinseattle]

I entered the following:

find {Directory_Path} -name *.* -ctime +60 -exec mv '{}' {Directory_Path_to_Move Files} \;

and received the following error messages:

>>find: bad option filename
>>find: path-list predicate-list

Thanks for all your great tips

 

[PHV]

What are EXACTLY {Directory_Path} and {Directory_Path_to_Move Files} ?
I strongly suggest you protect your code against shell expansion:
-name [!]'[/!]*.*[!]'[/!]

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[KenCunningham]

As PHV says, use single quotes around the wildcard filenames. In addition, the quotes around the {} in the exec aren't required.

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