Hi Experts,

I need your help for a new query. Query is to move all specified user files from a specified directory to another directory.

eg

i've 5 files in /export/home/users created by the gaurav(unix ID). i want to move all 5 files of gaurav from /export/home/users to /export/home/users/new_folder.

Thanks in advance.

regards,
Gaurav

Is the old directory to remain?

Yes, please. It contain lot of other stuff too from other users.

$ cd /export/home/users/
$ mkdir ./new_folder
$ cp ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 ./file4 ./file5 ./new_folder/

this will copy the 5 files to 'new_folder'

if u want to move them, simply type mv instead of cp

hope this is what you need

go to the directory, get the user UID (id user).

then
mv or cp -pR $(find . -user UID -print) ~newdirectory
(but after cp you will have to remove them the same way... but at least you can see if the files copied are what you wanted...)

sorry vbe i didn't mean to post after you, i should've refreshed the page

Hi Vbe/Elzalem,

Thanks for your response but it seems "find" word is searching entire UNIX directories rather then searching specified directory "/export/home/users".

Any suggestion on this?

Regards,
Gaurav