-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matej Cepl wrote: > Curtis Vaughan wrote: > >> Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of >> files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while >> preserving their time stamps? > > find . <paramters to select appropriate files> \ > while read FILE ; do mv $FILE other-directory/$(basename $FILE) > done > > Read find(info), bash(1), and mv(1) for more details.
OpenVMS does it the easy way. $ RENA/LOG/BEF=YEST *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR] Or, explicitly: $ RENAME/LOG/BEFORE=YESTERDAY *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR] - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE900mS9HxQb37XmcRAkgLAJ92QngduGSW+ATUrE03ffqo1CUAqQCdEuHy q5czXvIqCr1CTL3ZxLjyAu0= =JhMu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
