copy by date

virtual memory · 04-16-2010, 08:04 AM

hi all,
thanks for great of forums linuxquestions.org
i just need to make copy files have 2 year old to another directory
i know how to use cp command but i am not able to do that

please any help!

thanks in advance for your help

PMP · 04-16-2010, 08:14 AM

First find the files

Code:

man find

use xargs or exec to copy it to another directory

rayfordj · 04-16-2010, 08:21 AM

Something like this should do it. Might want to test it somewhere "safe" first.

Code:

find /old/file/dir/ -mtime +730 -exec cp {} /new/copy/dir/ \;

Where /old/file/dir/ is the directory where the files you want to copy are located and /new/copy/dir/ is the location to place the copy. -mtime is for the files' last modified time. The value 730 was calculated by multiplying 365 days/yr by 2 years. The +730 indicates to find files older-than the value specified.

For more details and information on find, consult its manual and info pages. It can be quite useful.