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Old 06-13-2005
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I have recently taken on a new position and want to clean up several file locations that currently hold data back through 1999. While I need to keep this data for business reasons, I have created directories to help sort out the individual years. Is there a quick command that I can use to archive the files by date created rather than having to go through and select individual names of files?

Sorry, it has been a long time since I worked in UNIX and I don't remember everything. Thanks for your help.
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Old 06-13-2005
look into 'find'
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Old 06-13-2005
Archiving Files by selecting years created.
Thank you for your quick response. I have another question on this issue though.

I am already down to the actual directory I need to archive and I checked into the find command and I can find the files for a specific year, but how do I move them all at one time into the appropriate year directory? My FIND help in my book "UNIX - The Complete Reference" does not say how to do this.
 
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