topic Re: using the FIND command to move files in Operating System - HP-UX

using the FIND command to move files

Mark Harshman_1 — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:40:40 GMT

hello
i have a large directory with over 800,000 files in it. I am wanting to move all files older then 30days to another directory. I am trying to use the FIND command, but am not having tons of luck. Any help would be appreciated. This is on a HPUX 11.i server. thanks

Re: using the FIND command to move files

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:44:54 GMT

Something like this should be close:

cd to desired source directory:

find . -mtime +30 -type f -exec mv {} /xxx/yyy/ \;

Before doing this command, I would substitute a "safe" command like ls -l in the -exec clause to get your criteria just right.

find . -time +30 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

Re: using the FIND command to move files

Sundar_7 — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:45:06 GMT

cd /huge-directory
find . -mtime +30 -exec mv {} /destination \;

Re: using the FIND command to move files

RAC_1 — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:47:20 GMT

I would as follows.

touch -t "time_30_days_back" somefile
find /dir -type f ! -newer "somefile" -exec ll -d {} \;
This give list and now move it by adding -exec mv {} /somedir/. or afterwards.

This will also do it.

find /dir -type f -ctime +30 -exec mv {} /somedir/. \;

Anil

Re: using the FIND command to move files

Dani Seely — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:59:31 GMT

Hey Mark, try this ... this will work:

# find -ctime +30 -exec mv {} \;

Re: using the FIND command to move files

Dani Seely — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:09:08 GMT

WOW! When I opened up your question there were no responses and by the time I typed in my instructions 3 other people had submitted their answers! This forum is awesome!

Sorry ... back to what I was going to say ...
several people used different time options in their find command and I wanted to help you understand the differences:

-atime is for the files access time

-ctime is for the files changed time

-mtime is for the files modified time

Play with the command options by using ls rather than mv until you get the desired result. Hope this clears things up.