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Hi All,

I have a directory which has crores of files since from 2003. I want to move ony the 2003 files to another directory. Please help

I want to move only the 2003 files among 2004, 2005 files in the directory.
Thanks

I help people that show they are trying...
So
1)you want to move files (dated 2003 ) in another directory
Q:
what commands do you think you will need?

Do a man of the commands...

2) How do I select those files?
start by listing correctly all the files so you can sort them by date...
use a pipe to filter with e.g. grep (man grep)

Show us you can do that and not the rest and someone will help you continue...

If you try the following -

Code:

> stat -c "%y|%n" * | grep "^2008-07-02"
2008-07-02 14:17:28.450802000 -0700|LinB.run.070208
2008-07-02 14:17:05.212540000 -0700|ctl
2008-07-02 04:19:34.049129000 -0700|data

It is retrieving files that were modified on 2008-07-02.
Each line is in the format of: time-info|filename

Play with this and see where it leads you.

I'd use find. Look at the man page.

I would agree, but then it depends on if all the concerned files are in the same directory at the same level or if there are some under sub-directories... (and we dont know... so your solution so far is the way to go...)

You could do something like
find . ! -path . -prune -a -type f -newer etc...

Do you know of a more elegant way to prune the search? I find this one a little sloppy.