How Do I Move a File from a Specific Date in Unix?
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How do I move a specific date in Unix?

How it works

  1. find . – mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1. …
  2. -mtime -7. This tells find to select only files less than seven days old.
  3. -exec mv -t /destination/path {} + This tells find to execute a mv command to move those files to /destination/path .

How do I copy a file from a specific date in Linux?

-exec would copy every result returned by find to the specified directory ( targetdir in the above example). The above copies all the files in the directory that were created after 18 September 2016 20:05:00 to the FOLDER (three months before today I would first store the list of files temporarily and use a loop.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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