How to move files from a directory which falls between Date Range?

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1

Hi All,

I am trying to to move files from a directory to another which falls from Current day - 7 days. The files are in zipped format with dates appended on it.

Can you pls help me as this came as a immediate change before the production Release planned next week.

Pls let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Freddie

2

in what format the files have date. Also which OS and shell your are using

3

do the dates reflect the file mtime? If so

touch -t 201205160000 /tmp/dummy
cd /old_directory
find . -type f -name '*zip*'  -newer  /tmp/dummy |
while read fname 
do
#test
  echo " $fname will become /new_directory/$fname
#real
#  mv $fname  /new_directory/$fname
done

See the #real part? run the code as is to verify if this is what you want. It is harmless. Do this FIRST.

If OK: Then edit the script and remove the # in front of the word mv

4 
find -type f '!' -mtime +7 /path/to/folder | while read FILE
do
        echo mv "$FILE" /path/to/dest/
done

Remove the 'echo' once you've tested to make sure it does what you want.

5

Hi Shailesh,

The date is in 20120131 format. It is LINUX & ksh.

Thanks,
Freddie

6

Could you show an entire filename for reference?

7

you can use this:

d=$(date '+%Y%m%d')
i=6
while [ $i -ge 0 ]
 do 
 printf "mv filename_$(expr $d - $i) /move/path/\n"
 i=$(expr $i - 1)
done

replace printf with mv command if this code does get what you want.

8 
#!/bin/bash

DAYSBACK=7
WORKINGDIR="/tmp"
TARGETDIR="/tmp/mvd"
ACTION="cp"     # change this to mv 

for day in `seq 1 ${DAYSBACK}`
do
        ${ACTION} ${WORKINGDIR}/`date -d "${day} days ago" +%Y%m%d`.zip ${TARGETDIR}
done
9 
dir=/aas/home/testdir1/final
for fname in `find . -name "*.zip" -mtime -7`
do
mv $fname $dir
done
10

The only problem i see with using find is that it relies on the fact that the files have correct modification time.

@dsfreddie - will the files always have correct metadata? Modified time etc?

11

Hi Shailesh,

Thanks for your inputs.

Pls find below what I have tried so far,

However, it is giving errors like below,

Can you pls help
Thanks,

Freddie

12

Thanks All for the inputs.

The code below worked for me :b:

Thanks
Freddie