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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 15:42:31 -0500
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From: John <papalia@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - Shell Script Question
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>I have a directory with a ton of files in it.  I need to move some of
>them to another
>directory.  Here's what I'm thinking:
>
>ls -tl | grep '1999' | awk '{print "mv " $9 " /home/darryl/test"}'

I'm thinking that there has to be some way to do this with find maybe?  I
just reviewed the man pages and didn't find the option I was looking for,
but maybe some modification on the line:

find . -newer "your.oldest.1999.file.here" -ok mv {} /home/darryl/test \;

Gotta be a better way, but I thought I'd throw that up as food for thought?

Good luck,
John


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