Re: mv files by date
- From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:57:10 -0500
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Matej Cepl wrote:
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of
files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while
preserving their time stamps?
find . <paramters to select appropriate files> \
while read FILE ; do mv $FILE other-directory/$(basename $FILE)
done
Read find(info), bash(1), and mv(1) for more details.
OpenVMS does it the easy way.
$ RENA/LOG/BEF=YEST *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR]
Or, explicitly:
$ RENAME/LOG/BEFORE=YESTERDAY *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR]
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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