list common name files

mazhar99 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

hican anyone tell how to list all files starting with "abc" only specific month like august .thanks,Mazhar

era · #2 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

File names, or files containing abc on the first line?

Code:

# File names matching abc* older than one month and newer than two months
find . -name 'abc*' -mtime +30 -mtime -60
# Files containing abc in the first three bytes
find . -mtime +30 -mtime -60 -exec sh -c 'sed -n "/^abc/p;q" {} | grep -q . && echo {}' \;

The relative times are a bit weird, I don't think there's an option to use absolute times in find itself but you could run stat on each file along the lines of the second example and examine the month number (and year?).

mazhar99 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

Hello

one more thing that i want to move these selected files starting with abc to different directory

thanks in advance

Mazhar

era · #4 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

Code:

whatever commands to produce a list of file names | xargs -i mv {} /path/to/elsewhere

mazhar99 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

Great Man!

its done.

Mazhar

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