Script to find files before Year, and move to archive folder

[saw15]

I am looking for a script that will find files in a specific directory ie: /myData/data/*.txt that are dated with a year prior to current year (don't want to hard code the year). Once these files are found, I want to move them into an archive directory and rename them with an extension of *.arc(/myData/archive/*.arc).

I am not a Unix guru, so looking for any kind of help. It is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

SAW

 

[iribach]

loock around, there are tousend threads playing
with date

 

[pete91z]

man find (also try the Unix Scripting forum)

 

[MikeLacey]

There's an online version of the find manual page at

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90689/00/01/104-con.html

There are examples of how to use the find command on that page.

You're talking about three different things here:

finding old files
moving them
renaming them

and I suggest you deal with these problems separately.

Once you're confident you're finding the correct files - add the option to the find command that moves them to the archive directory - I suggest you copy them at first rather than moving them, just in case you pick up a few files you weren't intending to.

After that's done look at renaming those files in the archive directory - though I'm not sure why you'd want to rename them as you can tell they're archive files from the name of the directory.

Mike

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[MikeLacey]

Oh - you need to look at the mtime option to find files older than a certain date - file creation time is not stored in UNIX despite rumours to the contrary.

Mike

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[pavithra123]

hi,

use this

find /dir \( -name "*.txt" -a -mtime +360 \) -exec mv /dir {} \;