Script Query

[Duffs]

Hi,
I want to write a script that will move all files that are older than 3 days within a number of sub directories to another server location.

My thinking was that taking one dir at a time I will gather all files older than 3 days and put them into individual batch files i.e.
find . -type f -mtime +3 > batch.out
But how can I get the actual files listed in these batch files to copy onto another dir (even locally)? Anyone any ideas on the best way of doing this?
Regards,
D.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

for FILE in `find /dir_one /dir_two /dir_three -mtime +d`
do
cp $FILE /arc_dir
done


Pete

[Michael Steele_2]

Hi

scp -rp * remotehost:/copy_to_dir (* secure copy *)

find /dir -depth -name "back*" -type f -print | xargs tar -cvf back.tar

tar cf - /source_fs | remsh server "tar xvf -"

a) I use find . -depth -exec tar -cvf /tmp/file.tar {} \;

Then verify the contents with
tar -tvf /tmp/file.tar

Then ftp the tarball over and extract.

cd /dir/dir
tar -xvf file.tar

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Duffs:

See:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1271016

Regards!

...JRF...

[Duffs]

Thanks for all the suggestions and help on this, I definately now have enough info to take my pick of solutions for this one.
Regards,
Duffs