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Date:      Tue, 08 Feb 2000 15:42:31 -0500
From:      John <papalia@udel.edu>
To:        <darryl@osborne-ind.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: OFF TOPIC - Shell Script Question
Message-ID:  <4.1.20000208154025.009f3bb0@mail.udel.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001101bf7273$e44dc250$070101c0@ruraltel.net>

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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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