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Re: copy


From: Dave Finlay
Subject: Re: copy
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:12:13 -0800

Does the /data/test directory exist prior to execution?  Otherwise cp is just copying the result set one at a time to a regular file at /data/test.

You may want to append a forward slash to the directory name, as that will cause cp to error if the directory doesn't exist instead.  Or chain the command after mkdir -p /output/dir.  That will error the same if it isn't a directory, but also create it if it doesn't exist.  Since you are interested in the files' timestamps, you may way to use --preserve to preserve them.

So, something like this:

dest_dir='/data/test'; mkdir -p "${dest_dir}" && find . -type f -mtime +10 -name "*.txt" -exec cp --preserve {} "${dest_dir}" \; 



Dave Finlay

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Val Krem <valkrem@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,

I want to copy files which are older than 10 days  with the extension file name txt.


I used the following  and it is not doing what supposed to do


find . -type f -mtime +10 -name "*.txt" -exec cp {} /data/test \;

can any one help me out?



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