04-22-2010
Move files of a certain year to other directory
Hi all,
I have a massive amount of recording files in .WAV format stored in a directory, files dating back to 2006.
It is a huge amount of files as Linux cannot even do a listing of it all, it states: "argument list too long"
What I would like to do is the following:
Find all the files of each specific year, zip them individually in type .gz, and move them to a folder, like move all files for the year 2006 into a folder called "Rec_2006", but also zip them while moving if at all possible.
Same for 2007 and onwards ...
If they cannot be zipped it is not a train smash.
As from there I will back them up to tape to be able to free up some space on the server.
Any help at being able to do this will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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NWDIR(1) nwdir NWDIR(1)
NAME
nwdir - Lists files in directory
SYNOPSIS
nwdir [-h] [-v] [-l] [-t] [-d] [-e] [-f] [directory]
DESCRIPTION
nwdir lists files, directories and their attributes from the specified NetWare directory.
OPTIONS
-h
-h is used to print out a short help text.
-d
List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents.
-l
Show filename in all available namespaces.
-v
Verbose listing, display everything possible.
-e
Display OS/2 Extended Attributes.
-f
List connections using each file.
-t
Show all informations (rights, attributes, file inodes) also as hexadecimal numbers.
directory
You can specify the directory to list. Current working directory is used by default. You have to specify path in Linux format, not in
NetWare format.
EXAMPLES
nwdir -t -v /NetWare/server/sys
With this example, all files from directory /NetWare/server/sys are displayed.
AUTHORS
nwdir was written by Milan Vandrovec. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors.
BUGS
Directory quotas are not displayed. User names are not taken from NDS, but only from bindery.
nwdir 4/2/1998 NWDIR(1)