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I have to find the files older than 200 days from a path and copy them to some other directory with the current date stamp attached to it.
i have written like follows:

#!/bin/ksh
DSTAMP=$(date +"%y%m%d%H%M")
rm $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/temp
touch $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/temp
chmod 777 $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/temp
find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -200 > $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/temp
while read line
do
cp -f $line $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/${line}.$DSTAMP
done < $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/temp


but its trying to copy the entire path of the file and failing.
I need to copy the only filenames.datestamp after the search

pls look in to this help me out.

Code:

find /old_path/* -type f -mtime +200 -exec echo {} /new_path/{}$(date +"%y%m%d%H%M") \;

If everithing run as expected replace echo by cp -f

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sorry i should know the rules.....

the query not giving the expected results,, its copying only datestamp not the filename.datestamp

can somebody reply to this please

Code:

find /path/to/old/files -mtime +200 |\
while read file
do
   echo "$file"$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")  | read newfile
   cp $file /path/to/new/directory/$newfile
done

Hello Jim,

Its the same problem
the find query bringing the files with the total directory structure and when trying to copy them with total path as per our logic and code failing to copy entire directory struture for eg see the code and output:

CODE:

#!/bin/ksh
find $CA_OUT_PATH/*/ftp_out -type f -mtime -200 |\
while read file
do
echo "$file"$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M") | read newfile
cp $file $CA_OUT_PATH/ftp_logs/$newfile
done




Output:

cp: cannot create /d09/out/ofad/ftp_logs//d09/out/ofad/glinf/ftp_out/glinf_xslgliaf.ftp.msg200808291526: No such file or directory

can some body look in to this please