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# 1  
Old 03-10-2009
Little help with Command Line
I'm trying to move files between a certain date to another folder and I ran this command:

Code:
find . \( -newer startdate -a ! -newer enddate \) -exec mv /PATH/TO/DIR {} \;

However it's not working. Can anyone see where the error is in this script?
# 2  
Old 03-10-2009
Code:
find . \( -newer [color=red]filename/color] -a ! -newer anotherfile \)

use filenames not dates, use touch -t YYYYMMDDHHmmss dummyfile to set a filetime on a temp junk file.
# 3  
Old 03-10-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
find . \( -newer [color=red]filename/color] -a ! -newer anotherfile \)

use filenames not dates, use touch -t YYYYMMDDHHmmss dummyfile to set a filetime on a temp junk file.
Hi Jim,

I first ran touch -t yymmddhhmm startdate then touch -t yymmddhhmm enddate.
Then I ran the command. Didn't work. I want to move the files another directory not rename them.
# 4  
Old 03-10-2009
You have two files, dummy1 dummy2. These files ARE NOT meant to be moved. They are dummy files.

Code:
cd $HOME
touch -t 2009030812001015 /home/bbbngowc/dummy1
touch -t 2009030912001015 /home/bbbngowc/dummy2
cd /some_newdirectory
find . \ c -newer  /home/bbbngowc/dummy1 -a ! -newer /home/bbbngowc/dummy2 \) \
     -type f |
while read filename
do
    mv $filename /PATH/TO/DIR/$(basename filename )
done

# 5  
Old 03-10-2009
Cool! I'll give this a try....
Thanks.
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