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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to move files older than certain time? Post 302985544 by rovf on Friday 11th of November 2016 05:20:17 AM
Old 11-11-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by eskay
How do I give the date?

find /data/ -type f -newer 11042016103500
Did you consider to read the man-page for find?
Quote:
-newer file

File was modified more recently than file. If file is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L
option is in effect, the modification time of the file it points to is always used.

BTW, there is no way you can reliably find out the creation date of a file. All discussions in this thread refer to the last modification time of the file (which in your case is probably sufficient).
Last edited by rbatte1; 11-14-2016 at 07:35 AM.. Reason: Changed Orange italic text into a QUOTE
 

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gvfs-move

gvfs-move(1)							   User Commands						      gvfs-move(1)

NAME

       gvfs-move - move a file from one VFS location to another

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-move source-URI destination-URI

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-move moves a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI	       Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       destination-URI	       Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Moving a File From a Web Server to a Local File

       example%
	       gvfs-move http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-move      Executable to move a file from one VFS location to another

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1),
       gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2008 						      gvfs-move(1)
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