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Okay. I ran the code:

mv `find /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/ftp_users/anonymous/ -mtime +30 -exec ls {} \;` /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/temp_save

It works but I get a lot of these types of errors:

mv: rename 168650_A7_Swatch.pdf to /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/temp_save/168650_A7_Swatch.pdf: No such file or directory

Any thoughts?

Thanks, again!

'rename' is a key word. Are you trying to move a file called rename? The message indicates that rename does not exists in the current directory.

where as your message

mv: rename 168650_A7_Swatch.pdf to /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/temp_save/168650_A7_Swatch.pdf: No such file or directory
clearly indicates that message.

When you do a move, the error gives like

$:mv rename testfile.txt
mv: rename: cannot access: No such file or directory

no, this is just one line of many that I get. All say 'mv: rename 168650 (file path, etc)'. Thanks for your help.

Instead of xargs, why not use exec?

Code:

find /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/ftp_users/anonymous/ -type f -mtime +30 -exec mv {} /Volumes/FTP_drive/FTP/temp_save \;

The exec helps if you have file with whitespace characters in the filename. Also remember to put in a '-type f' in the find command to make sure that you do not touch the existing directory structure in find's path.

Thanks, blowtorch.

That was very clean. Maybe I was having trouble because of spaces in the filename? Thanks!

Hi,

This will help u what i did is to cd inside that area from where i want the results and create a folder log.bkup and move all file more than 7 days into that folder

find . -mtime +7 -exec mv {} log.bkup \;