Simon Reap wrote:
> On 08/05/07 14:58, Hugo Mills said the following:
>> Then something like this would work (but would create more
>> directories than may be necessary):
>>
>> $ cd /home/admin/Marketing
>> $ find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 mkdir -p
>> $ find -type f -mtime 365 -exec mv "{}" "/mount/achieve/Marketing/{}"
>>
>> Hugo.
>>
>>
>
> Or, combining the read/exec versions, to reduce the number of
> directories created:
>
> $ cd /home/admin/Marketing
> $ find . -type f -mtime 365 | while read nam
> do
> namdir=$(dirname "$nam")
> if [ ! -d "$namdir" ]
> then
> mkdir -p "$namdir"
> fi
> mv "$nam" /mount/archive/marketing/"$nam"
> done
>
>
>
>
>
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I've been playing with all the options and it would appear that the user who has created the files
likes to use STUPID characters like brackets in her filenames :-/ and this is causing the script to
error out at random points so I've been having a rethink.
Could I use tar with the --after-date option, so use a line like
tar -zcvf --after-date=DATE marketing.tgz /home/Marketing/
The thing is I'm not sure what format the date should be in ?
Then when I know that this file has worked OK I could move the tgz file to the other server and
extract it recreating all the files and directories and then finally delete all the files on the
main server.
Any Thoughts on this
Thanks
Brian
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