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Old 04-03-2006
RE:backup files older then 24hrs to a new directory .
How do you move (mv) files to a backup directory from a particular directory when the files are
older the 24hrs copied from a batch script run every 24 hrs.
Would you use find or some kind of timestamp.timestamp="$(date +'%m%d%I%M')"
# 2  
Old 04-03-2006
try find maybe like this: -mtime +1 means older than one day (24 hours)
Code:
find /particular/directory -mtime +1  | \
  while read file
  do
       b=`basename "$file"`
       mv $file /path/to/new/directory/"$b"
  done

# 3  
Old 04-03-2006
Jim, I believe there is some confusion regarding the mtime parameter. +0 stands for older than one day, +1 would stand for older than 2 days. Check this out:
Code:
# date
Tue Apr  4 04:28:16 IST 2006
# ls -ltr
:
:
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Apr  3 04:20 testfile
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys           1300 Apr  3 23:58 fs.c
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            583 Apr  4 04:08 freesp.c
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            971 Apr  4 04:11 daemon.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys          28672 Apr  4 04:11 a.out
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys          24576 Apr  4 04:11 daemon
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            139 Mar 22 12:56 ./t1.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             38 Mar 31 08:05 ./shell/test.sh
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys           8192 Mar 31 08:05 ./shell
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Apr  3 04:20 ./testfile
# find . -mtime +0 |xargs ls -ldtr|more
:
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            139 Mar 22 12:56 ./t1.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             38 Mar 31 08:05 ./shell/test.sh
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys           8192 Mar 31 08:05 ./shell
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Apr  3 04:20 ./testfile
# find . -mtime +1 |xargs ls -ldtr|more
:
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys            139 Mar 22 12:56 ./t1.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             38 Mar 31 08:05 ./shell/test.sh
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys           8192 Mar 31 08:05 ./shell

Note that the file testfile shows up on using +0 and not on using +1. Check Perderabo's last post in this thread.
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