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Old 05-19-2010
Archive Files

I have 15-20 files in a unix folder on daily basis, so i need to archive those 20 files as dated today and place that archived files in a new folder and has to remove those 20 files from that folder. so that i place 20 new files that comes for tomorrow.

i need write a unix script to do this.

Can any one help me out with the script.
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Old 05-19-2010
Using GNU tar:

Code:
find /some/path -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs tar --remove-files -cf /somewhere/example.tar

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