Find a file and xarg mv to append date to file

UNIX Solaris
1

Hello All,

What I would like to do is search for a file and then run a mv command to rename the file to have todays date appended to it. The find when I run it finds eight or so files and I would like to append a date stamp to each file. If possible using one line command would be great. Can xargs do this or is there a way to do it in exec? Any help would be appreciated.

below is what I have so far, they are the pieces just trying to put it together.

1.   mv test.out  test.out.`date +%Y-%m-%d`
2.   find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +7 -type f | xargs mv

Thank you,
jack

2

Try that one:

find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +7 -type f -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "$0".$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' {} \;
3

jlliagre,

I ran the code but nothing happened. None of the files had the date appended.

-jack

4

Okay. Are you sure any file match the find conditions ?
What prints the same command without the -exec clause ?

find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +7 -type f
5

jlliagre,

My fault the original find did not find anything. So I changed the find param to find something now. I ran the whole script with the find of +0 and I get an error.

find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +0 -type f -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "$0".$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' {} \;

Results of running the above

./wdns: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns1: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns2: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns3: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
./wdns4: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected

Running only the find command

>find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +0 -type f
./wdns
./wdns1
./wdns2
./wdns3
./wdns4

-jack

6

My mistake. I'm running OpenSolaris with sh being POSIX compliant.
Solaris 10 and older have a non compliant sh.

Just replace sh by ksh.

find . \! -name \*gz -mtime +0 -type f -exec ksh -c 'mv "$0" "$0".$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' {} \;
7

jlliagre,

Thank you for your help. What you sent worked great.

much appreciated,
-jack