Copying files based on a pattern

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

[LEFT]I need to find and list the last 5 days files in that exact name with "MIM" and copy to another directory.
please help me in this there is around 30000 files
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Thanks
Murali

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Let's start with finding the files. This finds filee with the EXACT name "MIM". I'm not sure that was what you meant. I assume the MIM files are in some directory tree, let's call it "start"

find /start -name 'MIM' -exec ls {} \;
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Thanks for your reply

I have excuted the below command as below and got below error

find /start -name 'MIM_110' -exec ls {} \;
find: 0652-019 The status on /start is not valid.

I need these files copy to anohter palce

please help me in this,this is bit urgent

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/start means give the path, where you want to search

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yes i given,not listing any files

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I tried as below,its not copying

find /path -name 'MIM_110' -exec cp -r  {} /tmp/MIM \;
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Where are the files located - what is the FULL name of one MIM file:

# short name 
MIM
# full name - the directory names are pretend, they will be different on your machine
/somedirectory/data/Sunday/MIM

If they are all over everywhere use / the root directory.

find / -name MIM
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The files are in the one directry only but the file name is lengthy as below and diffrent each other

these files format as below

MIM_110_00000000023_8533.txt.00000000034.txt
MIM_110_00000000024_8533.txt.00000000035.txt
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find /path -name 'MIM_110*' -exec cp -r  {} /tmp/MIM \;