Move 2004 files to new folder

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

I need to move all 2004 files from a directory to new one. Is there any way to do that with just one command?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

Carles

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Carles,

You can use # cp -R //*

-Arun

[Warren_9]

hi,

for FILE in `cat LIST`
do
mv $FILE /new_dir/
done

GOOD LUCK!!

[Peter Godron]

Carles,
you wanted to move (not copy) the directory:
mv dir1 dir2
(in effect a reneame of the directory)

Otherwise you may find the command returning problem with number of files being copied.

[Enrico P. · Accepted solution]

Hi,

cd /source_dir

for i in $(ll|grep 2004|awk '{print $9}'); do
mv $i /dest_dir
done

Enrico

[Johnny Damtoft]

Are you saying that there is 2004 files in one folder you wanna move?

Or is it all files in one folder, that is created in the year 2004?

[Raj D.]

Hi Carles,

You can use

# cp -p -r /dir1/* /dir2/

It will copy subdirectories as well with same permissions.


Cheers,
Raj.

[rariasn]

Hi Carles,

$ cd olddir
$find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm newdir

rgs,

ran

[MarkSyder]

I think Enrico has given you the correct answer. I have only one thing to add: Enrico's answer will copy not only files modified in 2004 but files with a size of (for example) 2004, 12004, etc. Depending how many files you are dealing with, you may want to direct the output to a temporary file first to make sure you don't move files that should remain in situ.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Carles Viaplana]

Hi all,

Thanks for your replies, but as Mark said I need to move all files modified in 2004.

About any possibility to move files with size of 2004, 12004,... I can check it before and in case there aren't I can execute command sent by Enrico.

Regards,

Carles

[jon2]

Not a full answer - just a thought (no system for me to test on) .... but

find /xxx -mtime +NNNNN -exec mv {} /newdir \;


If you can somehow use mtime to select files from 2004....

There also is an option -newer (so maybe there is an older too so you could say older than a particular file... If there is not you can add "!" to say not newer than).

You can create a file of the correct date with touch -t YYMMDDhhmm FILE to compare against.

[Carles Viaplana]

Finally I use Enrico solution and it works fine as all files I should move are bigger than 2004 bytes I set grep command with " 2004 " value.

Thanks to all for your help!
Regards,

Carles