I think your logic is flawed with your find example.
Code:
find . -type f | ls -ltr | head -n 10000 -exec mv {} directory/ \;
This runs the 'ls -ltr' command on ONE FILE then it runs 'head -n 10000' on that ONE FILE. And since you've passed the rest of your find command arguments (the '-exec mv {} directory/ \;' part) are being passed as arguments to the head command you're getting nowhere fast.
I suggest you pick a cutoff date for old files in that directory. Then use the find command to move those.
So here we've moved all files that haven't been modified in at least 130 days to /some/other/dir/.
The '-xdev' prevents us from searching other filesystems within the current mountpoint. If you wish to search those filesystems then simply remove the '-xdev'.
Please test your command with a different variation of the find example above before you run this on your live system to make sure it does what you expect.
Something like this perhaps:
Code:
/usr/bin/find . -mtime +130 -type f -xdev -ls
Simply shows you which files meet the criteria you specified in the find command.
I'm using this following command but its erroring out !!
find /home/xxx/yyy/ . -mtime -7 -type f -exec mv {} /home/xxx/yyy/zzz/
" find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter. " -- This is the error i get... My basic requirement here is to move files which are 7 days old !!...
I have tried at the prompt also giving same command but same error is popping up. please suggest what might be the problem here..
I have the below command to delete all .xml files older than 90 days
find . -type f -name '*.xml' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
What will be the command to move all the .xml files older than 90 days to this folder -> "/tmp/my_bk"
My OS: SunOS my-pc 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to find files newer than a given file and them mv them to a new location.
So I far I have:
find . ! -newer <file_name> -exec ls -l {} \;
and
find . ! -newer <file_name> -exec mv /TEMP_LOCATION {} \;
find is not liking this.
Anyone know how to modify the last... (2 Replies)
Hi
A mismatch occurred on my system (Debian, Sid). I've got 3 disks sda, b, c.
Unfortunately, when I was adding a third disk (sdc) it all finished so that both sdb and sdc now have a boot flag. So, the first thing I would like to find out is which disk the system now boots from: sdb or sdc? In... (0 Replies)
Greetings....
Trying to find and move the 30 days old logs
#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%d-%b-%Y`
STATUSLOG="$HPATH$DATE-E3Backup.log"
HPATH="/ABC/Websphere/"
HT=`hostname`
BKUPSTR="/ABC/Websphere/$HT/"
echo "Moving of old logs Started on $HT " >> $STATUSLOG
find... (2 Replies)
Hi all
I wrote a little script that search for a file and moves it, its like this:
#!/bin/ksh
today=`date +"%d_%m_%y"`
if ;
then
mkdir -p /tmp/bigfiles/$today
mv $1 /tmp/bigfiles/$today/
echo "moving big file from /home/appcwec " | mailx -s "bigfile" ffff@yyy.com
else
... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
So I have another question. I'm trying to search for files with a certain extension and then move all of them up one level in the folder hierarchy.
So something like this:
original: /path/to/file/test.txt
after: /path/to/test.txt
I had some great help recently with another... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
/storage3
/storage4
I have written a shell script to locate files older than 7 days in /storage4 folder and move to /storage3.At the same time it will take output as number of files moved and log in a .txt file.
It will also find files in /storage3 older than 90 days and remove... (4 Replies)
i have some 1000 files in my dir and i want to find top 100 files and move them to some other location:
below the 2 commands i used, but it is not working
ls -ltr | grep ^- | head -100 | xargs mv destination - _________>not working
ls -ltr | grep ^- | head -100 | xargs mv {}... (3 Replies)
I am looking for files of a certian type and logging them. After they are logged they need to be moved to a different directory. HOw can i incorporate that in my current script?
CSV_OUTFILE="somefile.csv"
find . -name W\* -exec printf "%s,%s,OK" {} `date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'` \; > ${CSV_OUTFILE}
... (9 Replies)
Hello folks. I have read the forum here, almost came close to using some of the hints but too much info so I need a little nudge.
OBJECTIVE: I want to write a script that looks at certain type of files, than move those selected files to another directory, however, keeping the structure (PATH)... (4 Replies)