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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Xargs + Find Help Post 302558875 by modulartention on Sunday 25th of September 2011 06:49:19 PM
Old 09-25-2011
Xargs + Find Help
Guys i want to run a command to list all directories that havn't been modified in over 548 days ( 1.5 yrs ).
Id like to run a script to first print what the command finds ( so i get a list of the files pre move ... i have a script set for this :
find /Path/Of\ Target/Directory/ -type d -mtime +548 -print0 | xargs -0 du -cHh print >/tmp/archive_log_file.txt 2>&1

What id like to run after is a MOVE of those directories listed into another directory on another volume.The directories in question are exactly 3 in depth from the parent directory.
I need to preserve the complete structure of each directory, as the directory is full of associated files upto fifty individual files per directory.
These directories can be up to 10GB each and there might be over 100 of them so exec isn't going to handle it ..Xargs and mv seem the best case, unless anyone has a better take on this ..
 

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list_directory

list directory(1m)														list directory(1m)

NAME

       list directory - Displays a list of all the directories whose names match the specified directory name

SYNOPSIS

       cdscp list directory directory-name [with attribute-name = attribute-value]

ARGUMENTS

       The  full  name	of  a specific directory.  The last simple name can contain wildcard characters.  The name of a particular attribute.  The
       value of a particular attribute.

DESCRIPTION

       The list directory command displays a list of all the directories whose names match the specified directory name.  The last simple name can
       contain	wildcards.   You  can use a with attribute-name = attribute-value clause to limit output only to directories whose attributes have
       values equal to the specified values.  A space must precede and follow the = (equals sign).

   Privilege Required
       You must have read permission to the parent directory.  If you use a with attribute-name = attribute-value clause in the command, you  also
       need read or test permission to the selected directories.

NOTE

       This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.

EXAMPLE

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