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# 1  
Old 09-22-2009
Find a file and xarg mv to append date to file
Hello All,

What I would like to do is search for a file and then run a mv command to rename the file to have todays date appended to it. The find when I run it finds eight or so files and I would like to append a date stamp to each file. If possible using one line command would be great. Can xargs do this or is there a way to do it in exec? Any help would be appreciated.

below is what I have so far, they are the pieces just trying to put it together.


Code:
1.   mv test.out  test.out.`date +%Y-%m-%d`
2.   find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +7 -type f | xargs mv


Thank you,
jack
Last edited by jacktravine; 09-22-2009 at 04:23 PM..
# 2  
Old 09-22-2009
Try that one:
Code:
find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +7 -type f -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "$0".$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' {} \;

# 3  
Old 09-23-2009
jlliagre,

I ran the code but nothing happened. None of the files had the date appended.


-jack
# 4  
Old 09-23-2009
Okay. Are you sure any file match the find conditions ?
What prints the same command without the -exec clause ?
Code:
find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +7 -type f

# 5  
Old 09-23-2009
jlliagre,

My fault the original find did not find anything. So I changed the find param to find something now. I ran the whole script with the find of +0 and I get an error.

Code:
find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +0 -type f -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "$0".$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' {} \;

Results of running the above
Code:
./wdns: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns1: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns2: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns3: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns4: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected

Running only the find command
Code:
>find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +0 -type f
./wdns
./wdns1
./wdns2
./wdns3
./wdns4

-jack
# 6  
Old 09-23-2009
My mistake. I'm running OpenSolaris with sh being POSIX compliant.
Solaris 10 and older have a non compliant sh.

Just replace sh by ksh.

Code:
find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +0 -type f -exec ksh -c 'mv "$0" "$0".$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' {} \;

# 7  
Old 10-05-2009
Problem solved
jlliagre,

Thank you for your help. What you sent worked great.


much appreciated,
-jack
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