Re: mv files by date

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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Matej Cepl wrote:
> 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.

OpenVMS does it the easy way.

$ RENA/LOG/BEF=YEST *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR]

Or, explicitly:
$ RENAME/LOG/BEFORE=YESTERDAY *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR]

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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