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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Loop to move files in different directories Post 302460432 by rdcwayx on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 08:01:34 PM
Old 10-06-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by acc01
forgot to mention this will be run on a daily cron job. I used the code below to run this process but it deletes all the .log files that are already in the archive folder. How do I get the .log files that are already in the archive folder to stay and move the rest of the .log files that are not in archive folder into archive?

Code:
cd /a/b/c

find . -type f -name "*.log" |while read file
do
  mv $file ${file%/*}/archive
done

Thanks
you can exclude the archive folder.

Code:
find . -type f -name "*.log" |grep -v archive |while read file
do
  mv $file ${file%/*}/archive
done

 

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