Would something like this help?
# /bin/bash
for a in `find ./ -mtime 10`
do
echo "cp $a <destination>/$a"
done
find files younger than 10 days old and print out the command to copy them.
This script does not like spaces in filenames.
Tim B.
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 12:00, Brian Chivers wrote:
> I've just finished building a new server for our Admin staff but I don't
> really want to copy over all the data as a lot of it is really old.
>
> What I'd like to do is to move all the old stuff onto one of our less used
> servers or even an external HDD so we have it as an archive.
>
> The directory structure is something like this
>
> /home/admin/Marketing/xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> where xxxxxxxxxxxx is all the subdirectories & files that I'd like to move.
> It's more the files I'd like to move.
>
> I've worked out that I can use the "find" command with -mtine 365 extension
> but what I don't know how to do is the actual moving the files but
> maintaining the directory structure on the archive so something move them
> to something like
>
> /mount/achieve/Marketing/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> where xxxxxxxxxxxx is a duplicate of the directory structure that it's been
> moved from.
>
> Does this make sense ??
> Brian
>
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