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.

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...)

$ 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

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

No problemo,
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All the best