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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users find and move Post 81955 by SemiOfCol on Thursday 25th of August 2005 01:23:27 PM
Old 08-25-2005
don't forget the \; at the end of the exec command. It always errors out unless it is there. You also have an extra . in the command.

find /home/xxx/yyy/ -mtime -7 -type f -exec mv {} /home/xxx/yyy/zzz/ \;
 

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