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HOw to find and copy

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I need to find files in a directory, between dates like 4/15/06 and 5/02/06, and copy them to a different directory. Is there a way to doa find and a copy together?

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You need to work out the -mtime +<days> and -mtime -<days>
The +<days> = older than, -<days> = younger than

Code:
find /path/to/files -mtime -30 -mtime +13 -print | \
while read file
do
     cp  "$file"  /new/path/`basename "$file"`
done
You may want to mess around with just the first line, until it prints the correct files for you.
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