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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Moving Files within a particular date range Post 17592 by halfling on Monday 18th of March 2002 09:59:18 AM
Old 03-18-2002
This will move files by month, and will only work if there is no white-space in the file's name.

ls -go |sed '/^d/ d' |awk '{ if ( $4 == "Feb" ) print $7 } |xargs -i mv {} /home/abd/FILESFEB_01/

Sometimes usernames can bleed over to group IDs in a long listing, which would mess up the awk statement. So use option g and o to remove the owner and group columns.

sed is there to remove the directories from the listing.

awk statement will check the month column to see if it's equal, in this case, to Feb. If it is, it'll print the file name (again, file names with white-space won't work).

Finally pass it to xargs. If you're not familiar with xargs, read up on it... very useful in the right situations.
 

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gvfs-move

gvfs-move(1)							   User Commands						      gvfs-move(1)

NAME

       gvfs-move - move a file from one VFS location to another

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-move source-URI destination-URI

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-move moves a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI	       Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       destination-URI	       Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Moving a File From a Web Server to a Local File

       example%
	       gvfs-move http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-move      Executable to move a file from one VFS location to another

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1),
       gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2008 						      gvfs-move(1)
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