Does the /data/test directory exist prior to execution? Otherwise cp is
just copying the result set one at a time to a regular file at /data/test.
You may want to append a forward slash to the directory name, as that will
cause cp to error if the directory doesn't exist instead. Or chain the
command after mkdir -p /output/dir. That will error the same if it isn't a
directory, but also create it if it doesn't exist. Since you are
interested in the files' timestamps, you may way to use --preserve to
preserve them.
So, something like this:
dest_dir='/data/test'; mkdir -p "${dest_dir}" && find . -type f -mtime +10
-name "*.txt" -exec cp --preserve {} "${dest_dir}" \;
Dave Finlay
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Val Krem <valk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to copy files which are older than 10 days with the extension file
> name txt.
>
>
> I used the following and it is not doing what supposed to do
>
>
> find . -type f -mtime +10 -name "*.txt" -exec cp {} /data/test \;
>
> can any one help me out?
>
>
