Find all files by month

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I am trying to do achieving of files by months.

find /test -name \*.* -mtime +30
will give me the result of all modified files after 30 days.
But lets say i want to list all files that is modified in last months... what is the command to do it?
Thanks!

2

another thing is can i search all files that is btw this date to another date? thanks!

3

Something on the lines of this should work.

find /test -name '*.*' -newer oldfile ! -newer newfile

where oldfile has an old modified date and
newfile has a newer modified date compared to oldfile.

Vino

4

thanks vino for the help.
that's definately a great help.
however is there any other option than specifiying the file name?
it is because i won't have the luxury to know the old file and new file name in the folder.

5

This might work. Havnt tried it tho'

find /test -name '*.*' -mtime +60 ! -mtime +30

Did I make a mistake in my thought process ?? :confused:

Vino

6

thanks vino again for the reply.
your that script works.
however, it is still specifiying by number of days instead of month :frowning:

7

I am lost. What are you trying to achieve ? Find files between two dates or something else ?

Vino

8

sorry about that.
i am trying to backup all files in a specific directory by month.
lets say there are 50 files in that folder for month of Jan, i will move all Jan files into a Jan folder and so on for Feb as well.
Thanks!

9

So you want files which were last modified in the month of jan, feb et al.

10

you are right vino :slight_smile:

11

Check this out.

#! /bin/sh

for file in /test ;
do
mon=$(ls -l $file | awk '{ print $6 }')

case "$mon" in
"Jan") mv $file /test/Jan/$file ;;
"Feb") mv $file /test/Feb/$file;;
"Mar") mv $file /test/Mar/$file ;;
"Apr") mv $file /test/Apr/$file ;;
"May") mv $file /test/May/$file ;;
"Jun") mv $file /test/Jun/$file ;;
"Jul") mv $file /test/Jul/$file ;;
"Aug") mv $file /test/Aug/$file ;;
"Sep") mv $file /test/Sep/$file ;;
"Oct") mv $file /test/Oct/$file ;;
"Nov") mv $file /test/Nov/$file ;;
"Dec") mv $file /test/Dec/$file;;
*) echo " I dont think this statement will ever get printed " ;;
esac
done

Vino

12

thanks vino for all of ur helps.
will try it out later and post my comment here...
thanks again :slight_smile:

13

hi vino,

it doesn't work.
it always concatenate all the files's modified months into mon var at once.
example is i have 6 files with 2 Jan, 4 Mar.
mon var will be assigned with "Jan Mar Mar Jan Mar Mar" at once.

14

Could you give your listing of files, and then the result when you ran the script ?

Vino