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copy file

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Please help me to copy files for a particular date from one dir. to different dir.

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identify those files with a find

find <files> | xargs cp <fromone dir> <anotherdir>
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To be more precise,

find . -name '*' -[m|c|a]time [-|+]NoOfDays | xargs -I{} -t cp {} /tmp/{}

You may have to decide on which time (mtime,ctime,atime) and the days (before/notbefore/exactly on)to obtain the file list.

Please search the forum for more info on find command.


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