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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users find and move Post 81998 by bakunin on Friday 26th of August 2005 04:14:23 AM
Old 08-26-2005
I might be wrong, but I don't think /usr/bin/find is needed to accomplish what OP wanted:

ls -lrt (or, alternatively "-1rt")

gives a list of files sorted ascendingly by modification date, therefore:

ls -1rt | head -10000 | while read file ; do mv $file /somewhere/else ; done

should do the trick. If there are subdirectories and these should be excluded things get a bit more complicated. Replace the "ls -1rt" above with:

ls -lrt | grep "^-" | sed 's/[<space><tab>][<space><tab>]*/<space>/g' | cut -d' ' -f9

I concede, the second is a bit of a stretch of a "one-liner". Replace "<space>" and "<tab>" with literal tabs and spaces respectively.

bakunin
 

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