Find and Move files

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have the below command to delete all .xml files older than 90 days

 
find . -type f -name '*.xml' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

What will be the command to move all the .xml files older than 90 days to this folder -> "/tmp/my_bk"

My OS: SunOS my-pc 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,T5440

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The find command works like find foldername ...

You are currently giving it . , that is, the current directory.

As always, I recommend

find /tmp/my_bk -type f -name '*.xml' -mtime +90 -exec echo rm {} \;

to make sure it's doing what you want. The echo will cause it to print 'rm filename' instead of execute it. Remove the echo once you've tested.

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Thank you Corona but that's not my concern .. i may give the foldername or the current directory ... my concern is using the mv command with -exec

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Sorry, I misunderstood.

find . -type f -name '*.xml' -mtime +90 -exec echo mv '{}' /tmp/my_bk ';'

Again, remove the echo once you've tested.

Beware that if /tmp/my_bk is not a folder, this could remove your files!

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A trailing / should fail with an error if the target dir is missing or is a file.

find ... -exec mv '{}' /tmp/my_bk/ ';'
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