Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have got the script which find out the file that was modified 3 days ago now i want that all the files which fall into this category to be get zipped and then send to another directory...plz can u suggest me for that or any commands

For zipping use the zip-command or gzip, bzip2, compress, ....
For "sending" files to another directory try the cp or mv commands. The 1st will copy, the 2nd will move the files.
Reading a list of files could be done with a combination of a while-loop together with the read command for example.

Generally you should read a shell scripting to tutorial to start learning about basic commands and shell usage. For example: Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook

Hi ,

I am using this command to find out the files modified within 3 days and now I want to send those files into another directory named test ,i want that inside test directory the zip file should reside .... but my this below command is not working..can u correct the below command

Code:

find /home/499633/scripts -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3| tar -cvzf /test/backup.tgz directory

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Code:

 
find /home/499633/scripts -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3| xargs tar -cvzf /test/backup.tgz

Hi,

I have written this command in a script file and then executing that script but it is showing error

can you post the script and the error message

Hi ,

Now i want to copy those filter files into the test directory can you please provide me the command to copy those selected files into the test directory and later I will zip that test folder later.