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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Move folders containing certain files Post 302289987 by xavix on Saturday 21st of February 2009 05:43:07 AM
Old 02-21-2009
Finally I made this:

<
for SUBFOLDER in `(find $SOURCE -type f -mtime -10 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "/" } ; { print $7 }')`;
do
mkdir -p $DEST/$SUBFOLDER;
done
for SUBFOLDER in `(find $SOURCE -type f -mtime -10 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "/" } ; { print $7 }')`;
do
mv $SOURCE/$SUBFOLDER $DEST/$SUBFOLDER;
done
>

And this works for my $SOURCE path. Changing this path requires to adjust the awk column prints accordingly.
 

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