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Thanks, blowtorch.

That was very clean. Maybe I was having trouble because of spaces in the filename? Thanks!

no, this is just one line of many that I get. All say 'mv: rename 168650 (file path, etc)'. Thanks for your help.

Okay. I ran the code:

mv `find /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/ftp_users/anonymous/ -mtime +30 -exec ls {} \;` /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/temp_save

It works but I get a lot of these types of errors:

mv:...

Hi, gthokala.

Here's the exact line I'm using:

(first I cd to the directory I want to 'find' in)

find . -mtime +21 -exec ls {} \; | xargs mv /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/temp_save

When I run...

Do I need to use the quotes? I thought I didn't since I was piping to xargs? Thanks!

UPDATE: After putting the backquotes in here's the error I get:

-sh: ./.DS_Store: cannot execute binary file

When I use this for my script I get a bunch of errors. I thought I could use Xargs but I get this:

usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
...