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Old 04-29-2013
Writte a script to copy the files older than 7 days using find and cp
Hi
I'm trying to writte a script (crontab) to copy files from one location to another... this is what i have:

Code:
find . -name "VPN_CALLRECORD_20130422*" | xargs cp "{}" /home/sysadm/patrick_temp/

but that is not working this is the ouput:
Code:
cp: Target ./VPN_CALLRECORD_20130422111500_20130422113000_136777.csv must be a directory
Usage: cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] f1 f2
       cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] f1 ... fn d1
       cp -r|-R [-H|-L|-P] [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] d1 ... dn-1 dn

I'm not sure what is wrong, i'm using SOLARIS 10.

Do you have any idea of what is wrong ?
# 2  
Old 04-29-2013
Don't think xargs takes {} like that.

Code:
find . -name "VPN_CALLRECORD_20130422*" | while read FILE
do
        echo cp "$FILE" /path/to/destination
done

Remove the echo once you've tested and are sure it does what you want.
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# 3  
Old 04-29-2013
use the -exec option to find.

Code:
find . -type f -name "VPN_CALLRECORD_20130422*" -exec cp -v "{}" /home/sysadm/patrick_temp/ \;

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# 4  
Old 04-29-2013
Code:
find . -type f -name "VPN_
CALLRECORD_20130422*" -exec cp "{}" /home/sysadm/
patrick_temp/ +

-exec handles
special file names well.
+ can be faster than \;
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 04-29-2013 at 09:26 PM.. Reason: -type f is even safer
# 5  
Old 04-29-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
+ can be faster than \;
Probably true but that option is not portable.
# 6  
Old 05-02-2013
Hi all, my thanks to Corona688 and frank_rizzo for your reply, both scripts worked successfully , but the one of frank_rizzo worked removing "-v" because it was triggering "invalid option". Thanks guys.

The one of MadeInGermany didn't work because of this:
root@tefpebe01> find . -type f -name "VPN_CALLRECORD_20130502*" -exec cp "{}" /home/sysadm/patrick_temp/ +
find: incomplete statement


anyway many thanks because the intention of help, i forgot to tell you that i'm working on solaris 10, maybe there is a difference .
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