Re: mv files by date

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

Curtis Vaughan wrote:

> Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of
> files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while
> preserving their time stamps?

find . <paramters to select appropriate files> \
        while read FILE ; do mv $FILE other-directory/$(basename $FILE) 
        done

Read find(info), bash(1), and mv(1) for more details.

Best,

Matěj

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