search files and copy them to a directory with datestamp attached to it

sreenusola · #1 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008

Hi I need to search the some ftp files created in last 24 hours and copy them to a directory with date stamp attached to it.

Iam using following command to search the files
find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -1

but now how to copy these files to some other directory one by one
with date stamp attached to each file.

Please reply ...its urgent

thanks in advance

Smiling Dragon · #2 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008

If you just want them datstamped with today's date/time, you can add an -exec parameter to your find command to do this:

Code:

find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -1 -exec cp -p {} /some/other/directory/{}.`date +%y%m%d.%H%M%S` \;

(Untested, try it someplace safe first)
edit: Ok that didn't work

Instead, pipe the find output for a while-read loop:

Code:

find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -1 | while read filename ; do cp -p $filename /some/other/directory/${filename}.`date +%y%m%d.%H%M%S` ; done

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