Faster way to move old file

[heaman1]

I have thousands files in a path , I tried to use command "find" to move the old file (elder than 150 days) to another path , but it takes 1 day but only move 15% of these files , and the server also become very slow .


the command

find . -mtime +150 -exec mv {} path \;

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

'+' should be faster than ';'

find . -mtime +150 -exec mv {} path \+

HTH
Volkmar

[Dennis Handly]

>Volkmar: find . -mtime +150 -exec mv {} path +

Unfortunately you can't use {} anywhere but last with "+".

So either you need to do xargs or write your own mv script that swaps the order. Unfortunately xargs -i is just as slow:
find . -mtime +150 | xargs -i echo mv {} path

So you need to use:
find . -mtime +150 -exec mv_em path {} +

mv_em:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
target=$1
shift
mv "$@" "$target"