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mau5
mau5

Reputation: 199

Copy N days old files on Linux

Good morning,

I have many files inside directories, subdirectories which I'm now using copy everything inside. 

find /tmp/temp/ -name *files.csv -type f -exec cp -u {}  /home/dir/Desktop/dir1/ \;

And I was wondering, if there is anyway that I can copy like, copy if the file's modified date is within two days. I don't want to copy if the modification date is 2 days before the current date.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8284

Answers (2)

Maheswaran M
Maheswaran M

Reputation: 81

find /source_directory -type f -mtime +N -exec cp {} /destination_directory ;

Replace /source_directory with the directory where your files are located, /destination_directory with the directory where you want to copy the files, and replace N with the number of days.

Upvotes: 0

l'L'l
l'L'l

Reputation: 47284

You can use mtime within your find command:

find /tmp/temp/ -type f -mtime -2 -name *files.csv -exec cp -u {}  /home/dir/Desktop/dir1/ \;

This would copy only files with a modified time within the last two days of the system time.

-mtime n
    File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago

Upvotes: 0

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