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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying a files from a filter list and creating their associated parent directories Post 302418900 by hunter55 on Wednesday 5th of May 2010 04:22:00 PM
Old 05-05-2010
Just a quick update on my progress...it seems that the pax utility does the trick so far for what I need:

Code:
pax -rw -u -T 0000 -p am /datafiles /modfiles

This seems to copy all files that were modified within 1 day from /datafiles to /modfiles directory and does not preserve mod time (which is what I need).

It also seems to copy over the parent directory structures of the files which is great. Now for some further testing...
 

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unburden-home-dir

UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)						   User Commands					      UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)

NAME

       unburden-home-dir - unburdens home directories from caches and trashes

SYNOPSIS

       unburden-home-dir [ -n | -u | -f filter ]
       unburden-home-dir ( -h | --help | --version )

DESCRIPTION

       unburden-home-dir  unburdens  the  home	directory from files and directory which cause high I/O or disk usage but are neither important if
       they are lost, e.g. caches or trash directory.

       When being run it moves the files and directories given in the configuration file to a location outside the home directory,  e.g.  /tmp	or
       /scratch, and puts appropriate symbolic links in the home directory instead.

OPTIONS

       -f     just  unburden those directory matched by the given filter (a perl regular expression) -- matches the already unburdened directories
	      if used together with -u.

       -F     Do not check for files in use with lsof before (re)moving files.

       -n     dry run (show what would be done)

       -u     undo (reverse the functionality and put stuff back into the home directory)

       -h, --help
	      show this help

       --version
	      show the program's version

EXAMPLES

       Example configuration files can be found at /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/examples on Debian-based systems and in the etc/ directory	of
       the source tar ball.

FILES

       /etc/unburden-home-dir,	 /etc/unburden-home-dir.list,	~/.unburden-home-dir,  ~/.unburden-home-dir.list,  /etc/default/unburden-home-dir,
       /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden-home-dir

       Read /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/README on debianoid installations or README in the source tar ball for an explanation of these files.

SEE ALSO

       corekeeper (http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper), autotrash(1), agedu(1), bleachbit(1).

       For du(1)-like but more comfortable tools, see ncdu(1) (text-mode), baobab(1) (GNOME), filelight(1) (KDE), xdiskusage(1)  (X  tool  calling
       du(1) itself), or xdu(1) (X tool reading du(1) output from STDIN).

AUTHOR

       Unburden Home Dir is written and maintained by Axel Beckert <beckert@phys.ethz.ch>

LICENSE

       Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.

Unburden Home Directory 					     May 2012						      UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)
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