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Moving Files within a particular date range
Post 17497 by Kelam_Magnus on Saturday 16th of March 2002 08:30:36 AM
03-16-2002
use grep and for loop
Off the top of my head here is one longhanded way is to use grep.
Do a long listing of your directory that has files you want to move. Then determine the modify dates of those files. Now use grep here
Do:
ls -la |grep -e "Mar 1" -e "Mar 2" -e "Mar 3" > some.file
Now do a for loop to move them
for name in `cat some.file` # backtics here
do
mv $name /some/other/directory
done 2> /some/error.log # I always use an error log just in case
Of course you will possibly need to cleanup the "some.file" before running the for loop.
This is a crude way to do it but I think that it will work well.
Enjoy!
My Brain is your brain...
Do a long listing of your directory that has files you want to move. Then determine the modify dates of those files. Now use grep here
Do:
ls -la |grep -e "Mar 1" -e "Mar 2" -e "Mar 3" > some.file
Now do a for loop to move them
for name in `cat some.file` # backtics here
do
mv $name /some/other/directory
done 2> /some/error.log # I always use an error log just in case
Of course you will possibly need to cleanup the "some.file" before running the for loop.
This is a crude way to do it but I think that it will work well.
Enjoy!
My Brain is your brain...
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zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
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grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)