CLI copy files by date

linuxhippy · 06-23-2006, 09:26 PM

I've done this before in another OS and hope I can do it in Linux. I just downloaded a bunch of files that I want to copy to my USB pendrive-how do I only copy those files with cp by specifying the date? I read the man page and cannot find that option.

theoffset · 06-23-2006, 09:51 PM

For what I understand of your problem, I'd use find along with cp.

something like

Code:

$ find . -ctime -7 -exec cp {} /path/to/destiny \;

This should copy files with data modified in the last 7 days (you can specify minutes instead of days with -cmin n, and you can use access time instead with -atime. You can compare with an existing file with -cnewer <file>).

I'd recomemend you to read man find.

Also, I'm pretty sure there are several other ways of doing this.

Geist3 · 06-23-2006, 10:01 PM

cd to source directory, then:

Code:

mkdir catch; cp -ra $( ls -l | awk '$6~/2006-01-*/ { print $8 }' ) catch

where catch directory is where you want files to end up.