The double quotes in this find command's -exec primary make absolutely no difference. The commands:
and:
and:
will all produce the same results (but the last one will run faster since mv will be executed less often to move the files). This works for any files on the system even if the filenames contain spaces, tabs, and newlines.
However, if you use something like:
it won't work if any filenames contain a newline. On some systems you can get around this using -print0 in find instead of -print and then use a special option in the program reading filenames from the piped output of find, but these options are not in the standards (so they are not portable).
I'm wanting to write a bourne shell script that takes in two command line arguments - a directory and a file. With this I want to return a list of files within the directory that are older (based on creation date) than the given file, and print the number of files that have not been listed (they... (4 Replies)
Hi all
I am trying to loop through a directory of files using a given search pattern. some of the files will be duplicated due to the pattern, but of the duplicate files i wanted to move the older files to another location.
Is there any straightforward way of doing this ?
One of ways I... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have multiple files in the folder, I want to move those files into the other folder on based of name
File names:
Template_server1_01==>
Template_server1_02==>To one directory /Server1
Template_server1_03==>
Template_server2_01==>
Template_server2_02==>To one... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I need a script that moves files based on date to a folder. The folder should be created based on file date. Example is :
Date file name
----- --------
Oct 08 07:39 10112012_073952.xls
Oct 09 07:39 10112012_073952.xls
Oct 10 07:39 ... (6 Replies)
hi
i have to move files and send an email and attached the bad files to inform the developer about that.
#!/bin/ksh
BASE_DIR=/data/SrcFiles
cd $BASE_DIR
## finding the files from work directory which are changed in 1 day
find -type f -name "*.csv" –ctime 0 > /home/mydir/flist.txt
##... (14 Replies)
Dear friends..
I have the below listing of files under a directory in unix
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 263349631 Jun 1 11:18 CDLD_20110603032055.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 267918241 Jun 1 11:21 CDLD_20110603032104.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 257672513 Jun 3 10:41... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a directory which has crores of files since from 2003 till now. I want to move only the 2003 files to another directory. Please help.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Howdy,
I'm trying to figure out how to move multiple files based on their creation date. If anyone can enlighten me it would be most appreciated!!
Thanks!
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