Hi Debbie,
To add to the "newer" idea...
"-mtime +0" will tell find to select files older than 24 hours ago. If you run that find command at 3pm you will miss all files created yesterday between 3pm and midnight.
To get all files older than today, use a reference file and "not" logic with the "-newer" arg:
touch `date +%m%d`0000 /tmp/ref
find /main ! -newer /tmp/ref
Use the appropriate "-name" args to get the files you want. Also note /tmp/ref would be selected by "! -newer" if it was in /main.
To keep from moving files in subdirectories of /main, you could capture find's output to a file, use grep, awk, sed, or whatever to select only files in /main itself. But since you want files that have an earlier date than today and if files don't have a future date you could do:
DTE=`date '+%b %e'`
for file in `ll /main | grep -v "$DTE" | grep -v total | grep ^- | awk '{print $NF}'`
do
mv /main/$file /main/hist/$file
done
This selects regular files (grep ^-), omits ll's total line, and omits files with todays date. Of course, files dated a year or years ago today would be omitted also.
Darrell
"What, Me Worry?" - Alfred E. Neuman (Mad Magazine)
