I am trying to move files older than 30 days without moving files in the lower directories. My file structure is as follows...
Dir1-
|Dir2
|Dir3
I want to move all files older than 30days from Dir1 to Dir2. Here is what I have...

find /Dir1 -type f -mtime +30 -exec mv {} Dir2 \; ( but this moves all files in other subdirectories.)

Thanks in advance.

-Gregg

yeah, you could probably cron a bash script, but Im just getting into bash scripting myself. Dont know about the syntax hehe

find command searches in subdirectories also.
look man find to see whether any aoption to avoid subdirectories.

You can also skip find in the start of your search

ls -F /dir1 | grep -v /
#this will only return regular files not dirs from the dir1 then add
| xargs -I {} find ./{} -mtime +30 | xargs -I {} mv {} /dir2

it is not pretty but I think this will work... a Perl script or ksh would be cleaner but I have not done many jobs like this in a long time...


the only item that I am not sure on is the “./{}” please check on this…

if it does not work like you want you might do a cd /dir1 then use ls ... find . that will make the ./{} easer to debug... -KJ

hi
i think the (grep -v "^") will help you.
for example:

( find / | grep -v "^/tmp" )

the result will be all files in "/" without the files that under "/tmp"

Best Regard

nice i always for get the ^
-KJ

Thanks. It works without the '^' Is there a way to grep to ignore multipe directories. I am trying to avoid 2.

-Gregg

Well pattern matching comes to mind. I think you need to research metacharacters
I think you are looking for:
find / | grep -v "^/tmp|^/tm2|^/tmp3"

but am not sure. There are so many variations, that it is to hard to know exactly.

If the sub-dir's can vary you can not word match but will need to string ... bla bla
also you can also always find / | grep ^/tmp | grep ^... as many times as you like... It is not as clean but always works if you test it thourally...

hi,
To exclude more than one directory.

for example:

{ find / | grep -v "^/tmp" | grep -v "^/tmp1" | grep -v "^/tmp2" }

it work well.

BR