copying files according to modification date and extension
 

Hi,

I am trying to find a command which will copy all the files in the folder with extension ".log" which is created one day before the current date.

By going through other threads in this forum I found the half solution to this problem :)

find /mnt/hd -mtime -1 -exec scp {} /mnt/usb \;

This command copying the all the files created one day before(not only *.log) to the /mnt/usb folder.

please let me know what is the modification required to above command.

Thanks you!!

Hi,

Have a look at the man page for find:
in particular the -name parameter you can add to your command.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi,

Thanks for the Advice. I am able to figure out answer to my question from the man page. But getting some error message with this command

#find /mnt/hd/ -mtime -1 -name "*.log" -exec scp {} /mnt/usb/ \;
find: scp: No such file or directory
find: scp: No such file or directory
find: scp: No such file or directory

But the command works fine without scp. Not able to figure out what is going wrong here!!!

# find /mnt/hd/ -mtime -1 -name "*.log"
/mnt/hd/dbg_34.log
/mnt/hd/dbg_12.log
/mnt/hd/dbg_14.log

Thanks

Hi,

Why are you using scp (secure copy which is part of ssh) to make a local copy to a USB stick? The error you get is because your system cannot find scp. Try with cp instead like this:
Kind regards,

Eric

It worked. Thanks a lot Eric for the help :)

Regards,
Srini

Hi Srini,

Glad you got your solution. Enjoy Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric