Hi All,

I want to move the files in to different folders based on the files month in the file timestamp.

For example

All the september files in the directory should moves into the folder "sep_bkp_files" , August files in to aug_bkp_files folder...

Please help me to achive the above issue. I am using solaris OS.

Thanks,
Velava

post the output of ls -lrt

or is the filename having the timestamp ?

Yes, the fiename having the timestamp.

if u provide the example filename, then i can help u

filenames will be,

-rw-rw-r-- 1 b2binta1 b2badmin 16515066 Sep 18 00:57 test1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 b2binta1 b2badmin 22824 Sep 18 01:30 test2.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 b2binta1 b2badmin 41844 Sep 18 01:30 test3.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 b2binta1 b2badmin 22824 Sep 18 01:36 sample1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 b2binta1 b2badmin 213024 Sep 18 01:36 sample2.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 b2binta1 b2badmin 60864 Sep 18 04:34 hello.csv

Thanks

dest=/path/to/september/
touch -t 201209010000 /tmp/d1
touch -t 201209305959 /tmp/d2
find /path/to/files -type f |
while read fname
do
     mv $fname $dest
done

based on the month present in the file time stamp i have to move its respective folders.

it is not working as expected and it is moving all other month files as well.

Thanks