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Hi,
Can someone please help me with this.

Actually i want to move files from one directory to another directory , But I just want to move files of a specific data range.

For ex:
This is my directory which contains all fine.
/home/Rooh
Then there is a long listing of files.
suppose this directory contains files from feb 01 , march01, april 01.
But I just want to move files of Feb 01 to another Directory for ex:
/home/abd/FILESFEB_01

How can I do this.
I have tried alot but somehow I am unable to get the output I want.
I have also tried with -mtime but doesn't give me the desired output.
Your Help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
ROOH

Off the top of my head here is one longhanded way is to use grep.


Do a long listing of your directory that has files you want to move. Then determine the modify dates of those files. Now use grep here

Do:

ls -la |grep -e "Mar 1" -e "Mar 2" -e "Mar 3" > some.file

Now do a for loop to move them

for name in `cat some.file` # backtics here
do
mv $name /some/other/directory
done 2> /some/error.log # I always use an error log just in case


Of course you will possibly need to cleanup the "some.file" before running the for loop.

This is a crude way to do it but I think that it will work well.


Enjoy!
My Brain is your brain...

The following script should do the job if Feb01 file stands for files with mtime "Feb" (I mean, +20...today is 18th March 2002)

mv `find . -mtime +20` urfolder

Note: change the number in mtime as per your requirement...

This will move files by month, and will only work if there is no white-space in the file's name.

ls -go |sed '/^d/ d' |awk '{ if ( $4 == "Feb" ) print $7 } |xargs -i mv {} /home/abd/FILESFEB_01/

Sometimes usernames can bleed over to group IDs in a long listing, which would mess up the awk statement. So use option g and o to remove the owner and group columns.

sed is there to remove the directories from the listing.

awk statement will check the month column to see if it's equal, in this case, to Feb. If it is, it'll print the file name (again, file names with white-space won't work).

Finally pass it to xargs. If you're not familiar with xargs, read up on it... very useful in the right situations.