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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Help with archiving using find Post 302334898 by TonyFullerMalv on Thursday 16th of July 2009 07:39:39 PM
Old 07-16-2009
Finding a list of old files is usually done with something like:
Code:
# find . -type f -mtime +365

This would list all files in or under the current directory that have not been modified in the last year.

You could move all files older than a year like so:
Code:
# find . -type f -mtime +365 -exec mv {} /archive \;

This would not preserve the directory structure.

You could do something like this to preserve the directory structure:
Code:
# find . -type f -mtime +365 | awk '{ print "mv "$1" /archive/"$1 }' | sed 's/\/\.\//\//' > /tmp/moveoldfiles.sh

check that /tmp/moveoldfiles.sh will do what you intended and then run it.

HTH?

HTH?
 

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lorder(1)							   User Commands							 lorder(1)

NAME
lorder - find ordering relation for an object or library archive SYNOPSIS
lorder filename... DESCRIPTION
The input is one or more object or library archive filenames (see ar(1)). The standard output is a list of pairs of object file or archive member names; the first file of the pair refers to external identifiers defined in the second. The output may be processed by tsort(1) to find an ordering of a library suitable for one-pass access by ld. Note that the link editor ld is capable of multiple passes over an ar- chive in the portable archive format (see ar.h(3HEAD)) and does not require that lorder be used when building an archive. The usage of the lorder command may, however, allow for a more efficient access of the archive during the link edit process. The following example builds a new library from existing .o files. ar -cr library `lorder *.o | tsort` FILES
TMPDIR/*symref temporary files TMPDIR/*symdef temporary files TMPDIR usually /var/tmp but can be redefined by setting the environment variable TMPDIR (see tempnam() in tmpnam(3C)) ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWbtool | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ar(1), ld(1), tsort(1), tmpnam(3C), ar.h(3HEAD), attributes(5) NOTES
lorder will accept as input any object or archive file, regardless of its suffix, provided there is more than one input file. If there is but a single input file, its suffix must be .o. The length of the filename for TMPDIR is limited to whatever sed allows. SunOS 5.11 29 Oct 1991 lorder(1)
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