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I searched the forum rather thoroughly but still could not find the answer. Hopefully the solution is right under my nose.

Here what I need to do, move older data to a Archive folder that is 18 months old and older.

I would like to use the following command,

find departmentx/* -mtime 530 -exec mv {} Archive/departmentx/{} \;

of course the problem is, there are some subfolders & parent folders within this search that will need to be created so the files can be moved into them, otherwise I just get errors.

Any Ideas?
thanks in advance

Why not cpio to archive/dept; then rm? you keep the directory structure in that case

That is one option, but if possible I was hoping to do it in one step. Mainly due to limited down time this server has between shifts, and the size of each departments folders.
(They like their data, think its like a comfort blanket or something)

I dont see where there is downtime issue...

What I do if you have size concern is as you are trying, recreate a archive structure, but I then after a while archive what I find there in files I cal .arc (using cpio...) and compress the lot, IF someone what to see the content, he will have to use a script I called cpiozipdir which shows him the content (and directory structure)...

I like to be extra extra careful when messing with users files like this. Instead of trying to do it using a one line find command why not take the time to write a perl script that does some error checking along the way. Also, realise that find command you're using will also return directories so if you're going to do it that way either add a -type f switch or make sure what you do in the end can process directories.

I think I will have to go that way (perl that is)

Any way, thanks for your responses guys