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Old 07-06-2010
Java Need help in moving files recursively
Hi,

I have d1,d2,d3 directories
/
Code:
 
/home/abc/d1
/home/abc/d2
/home/abc/d3
d1,d2 and d3 also have subdirctories.
d1-->d11-->d12
d2-->d22-->d23
d3-->d33-->d34

All these directories have files like date_filename.txt
so I want to find the files recusively for a particular date from /home/abc and move them to a folder..


pls help..

Thanks in advance..
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Old 07-06-2010
Code:
find /home/abc -name '<date>_*.txt' -exec mv {} /target/folder/. \;

 
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