On Thursday 28 September 2006 18:16, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a > dir according to their timestamp. > > man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't > think that's what I need. > > Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or > python pass that'll do it?
use find with the time-related options and -exec. To move everything in ~/mystuff that's older than 3 days (72 hours) to ~/backup, you could use find ~/mystuff -type f -mtime 72 -exec mv {} ~/backup \; find has many options related to searching by time (hours, minutes, etc) and you can select by atime, ctime or mtime. It's all in the man page alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list