Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone,

I need help with the find command. I currently have a script which finds and moves files of a certain name and timestamp.

The problem is that each of those sub directories also contain a directory called ARCHIVE and that needs to be excluded from the search.

This is the script I have right now

date=$(date '+%m%d0000')
touch -t $date /home/files/myfiles/timestamp
find /home/files/server2/MYFILES -newer /home/files/timestamp -name CDMYFILES* -exec mv {} /home/files/movefiles/ \;
rm /home/files/myfiles/timestamp

This script works but it also moves those files in the ARCHIVE directory.

Please tell me how I can exclude this directory from the search.

Hi.

What I prefer to do, is not use exec, but rather xargs...

i.e.
instead of

Code:

find /home/files/server2/MYFILES -newer /home/files/timestamp -name CDMYFILES* -exec mv {} /home/files/movefiles/ \;

I'd use...

Code:

find /home/files/server2/MYFILES -newer /home/files/timestamp -name CDMYFILES* | grep -v ARCHIVE | xargs -I{} mv {} /home/files/movefiles

Thank you so much scottn. The command worked perfectly.

Can you please help me with one more thing, I need to chmod the moved files with 644. I know it can be done with the -exec command but I don't know how to do it with xargs command.

Hi.

Yes...

Code:

xargs -I{} ksh -c "mv {} /home/files/movefiles; chmod 644 /home/files/movefiles/{}"

Hi scottn,

when I ran the script below

find /home/files/server2/MYFILES -newer /home/files/timestamp -name CDMYFILES* | grep -v ARCHIVE | xargs -I{} ksh -c "mv {} /home/files/movefiles; chmod 644 /home/files/movefiles/{}"

I got the error below

mv: /home/files/movefiles: rename: No such file or directory
chmod: can't access /home/files/movefiles//home/files/server2/MYFILES/CDMYFILES12345

but the files have been moved though

Oh yes. The {} includes the path to the original file.

It's easier if you chmod first:

Code:

xargs -I{} ksh -c "chmod 644 {}; mv {} /home/files/movefiles"

Actually, It all can be done with one find command Try:

Code:

find /home/files/server2/MYFILES \( -name '*ARCHIVE*' -prune \) -o \( -newer /home/files/timestamp -name CDMYFILES* -exec mv {} /home/files/movefiles/ \; -exec
chmod 644 {} \; \)