Re: mv files by date

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Should I do this?
> 
> find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../

You can but you are doing it too much complicated -- find by default prints
on stdout found filename. And concerning xargs -- I don't use it that much
(it always confuses me to no end), but doesn't it put the filename from
stdin to END. So that effectively you would have

mv ../ filename

(I don't think, that's what you want).

I really prefer my while cycle:

find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 | while read FILENAME
do mv $FILENAME somewhere/
done

Result is the same as with xargs, but at least I know what's going on.

Matej

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