Script to move old files

[2ne1]

I am not too familiar with script , if I want to do the housekeeping in a path as below , can advise what can I do ? Thanks

1) move the files ( /tmp ) elder than 90 days to a specfic path ( /tmp/bak )

2) remove the files elder than 180 days and gzip these remove files in /tmp/bak .

[Dennis Handly]

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>1) move the files (/tmp) older than 90 days to a specific path (/tmp/bak)

find /tmp -mtime +90 -exec mv {} /tmp/bak \;

(If you want to use "-exec ... +, you'll need to write a script that reverse the parms to mv(1).)

[2ne1]

Thx reply,

The command you provided is for request 1 , can advise if I would like to do the thing as point 2 , what can i do ? thx

[Dennis Handly]

>The command you provided is for request 1, can advise if I would like to do the thing as point 2, what can I do?

The idea was that you would figure 2) out from the solution to 1).

find /tmp -mtime +180 -type f | while read filename; do

   gzip -c "$file" > "/tmp/bak/$file.gz"

   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

      rm -f "$file"

   else

      echo "Problem gzipping $file" 1>&2

   fi

done

If /tmp has subdirectories, there'll be problems.