I'm trying to move files from the current directory to another directory by date, but I accidentally used the wrong target format:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime +365 -type f -exec mv "{}" "..\folder" \;
instead of
find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime +365 -type f -exec mv "{}" "../folder" \;
Then my files just disappeared.
I can't seem to find it anywhere. I've tried on both target & source directories and even the non existent directory that I have accidentally sent the files to.
I would just like to know if I can still recover the files.
They're all gone. When you run:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime +365 -type f -exec mv "{}" "..\folder" \;
You are executing, for every file, the command:
mv filename ..folder
In other words, you renamed every file to the name ..folder. Each file overwrote the next one. The contents of the ..folder file are whatever file was last processed by your command, and all the rest are gone.
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I have some automated downloads in a proprietary linux distro.
They go to a temp scratch disk. I want to move them when they're finished to the main RAID array. The best way I can see to do this is to check the folders on the disk to see if the contents have changed in the last minute. If not then its probably finished downloading and then move it.
Assuming there could be hundreds of folders or just one in this location and its all going to the same place. Whats the best way to write this?
I can get a list of folder sizes with
du -h directory/name
The folders can contain multiple files anywhere from 1.5mb to 10GB
Temp Loc: /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing
Dest Loc when complete: /volume1/S/00 Landing
EDIT:
Using this:
find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -mindepth 1 -type d -not -mmin +10 -exec mv "{}" "/volume1/S/00 Landing" \;
find: `/volume2/4TBScratch/Processing/test': No such file or directory
4.3#
yet it DOES copy the relevant folders and all files. But the error worries me that something might go wrong in the future.... is it because there is multiple files and it's running the same move command for EACH file or folder in the root folder? But since it moves it all on the first iteration it cant find it on the next ones?
EDIT2:
Using Rsync
4.3# find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -mindepth 1 -type d -not -mmin +10 -exec rsync --remove-source-files "{}" "/volume1/S/00 Landing" \;
skipping directory newtest
skipping directory erw
RESOLVED: EDIT3
Resolved with the help in the comments below. Final script looks like this:
find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -mindepth 1 -type d -not -mmin +10 -exec rsync -a --remove-source-files "{}" "/volume1/S/00 Landing" \;
find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -depth -type d -empty -delete
rsync to move folders and files but leaves empty root dir
the next command finds empty folders and removes them.
Thanks all!
You can use GNU find with options -size for detecting files/folders of certain size and use mv with the -exec option to move to destination directory. The syntax is
find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -type d -maxdepth 1 -size -10G -exec mv "{}" "/volume1/S/00 Landing" \;
Using rsync
find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -type d -maxdepth 1 -size -10G -exec rsync --remove-source-files "{}" "/volume1/S/00 Landing" \;
The size with a - sign to indicate less than the mentioned size which in this case is 10GB. A note on each of the flags used
-type d -> For identifying only the folders from the source path.
-maxdepth 1 -> To look only on the current source directory and not
being recursive.
-exec -> Execute command following it.
Alternatively, if you want to find files that are last modified over a certain time(minutes), find has an option for -mmin which can be set to a value. E.g. -mmin -5 would return files modified five minutes ago.
So suggest adding it to your requirement, for x as you need and see if the directories are listed, then you can add the -exec option for moving the directories
find /volume2/4TBScratch/Processing -type d -maxdepth 1 -mmin -2 -size -10G
Refer to the GNU documentation for finding files according to size on how this works.
Note:- The double quotes("") are added to avoid Bash from splitting the names containing spaces.
I have folder and subfolder. I need to loop through each folder and subfolder and remove or move the file names which start with abc.txt and 14 days old to temporary folder. My folder tree structure is:
The file may be inside the folder or subfolder 'abc.txt'
I have used this below code but not working.
I took the folder paths into a list.txt file using below command
find $_filepath -type d >> folderpathlist.txt
I pass the path list to below code to search and remove or move files to temporary folder
find folderpathlist.txt -name "abc*" -mtime \+14 >>temp/test/
How do I achieve this scenario ?
You want to find files: -type f
that start with abc.txt: -name "abc.txt*"
that are 14 days old: -mtime +14
and move them to a dir.: -exec mv {} /tmp \;
and to see what moved: -print
So the final command is:
find . -type f -name "abc.txt*" -mtime +14 -exec mv {} /tmp \; -print
Adjust the directory as required.
Note that mtime is the modification time. So it is 14 days old since the last modification was done to it.
Note 2: the {} in the -exec is replaced by each filename found.
Note 3: \; indicates the termination of the command inside the -exec
Note 4: find will recurse into sub-directories anyway. No need to list the directories and loop on them again.
I'm trying to execute this command to copy the latest file that exist in the courant directory to another one .
find . -mtime -1 -exec cp -r {} /media/96DB-120D/bck \;
but after copying the recent files , I find the other content of the folder that does not respond to the condition -mtime -1 .
If any one had an idea about how to fix it to just copy the result of find command and thanks.
The find command probably includes the directory and then cp copies all the files in the directory. Add -type f to only have find report actual files.
Try the -p option of cp command which will preserve the timestamp of the copied file:
find . -mtime -1 -exec cp -pr {} /media/96DB-120D/bck \;
I think this is the best solution :
find . -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp --parents {} /media/960DB-120D/db \;
I want to copy the recently updated multiple file into another directory.
I am having 1.xml,2.xml,3.xml.... in this directory recently someone updated file or added new file into the directory,So i want to copy those files into the destination directory ..Its like synchronization of 2 directories.
For that I have tried below commend
find home/deployment/server/services/ -type f -mtime 1 | xargs cp /home/application/
and below one also
find home/deployment/server/services/ -type f -mtime 1 -exec cp /home/application/
I am not getting any file into destination after updating 1.xml file,So I have added new file 4.xml even that also not updating in destination directory.
How to process recently updated or newly added multiple files.
Thanks in advance.
Short answer:
use xargs to mv the "find" directory into another directory
Long answer: As I recall (not tested) for exec syntax is
find . -type f --mtime 1 -exec cp {} /destination/path/ +
"{}" is an argument which came from command "find"
For xargs
find . -type f --mtime 1 | xargs -0 -I {} cp {} /destination/path/
I do this often but use \; instead of + and usually -cnewer rather than -mtime.
\; executes the cp command on files individually instead of as a group.
+ executes as a group with as many paths as xterm will take. It may do this multiple time if there are a lot of files.
the \ in front of the ; option is required or bash will think it is the end of the command.
find ./ -mtime -1 -exec cp {} /path/ \; -print
Use the -print at the end to get a list of the files that were copied.
I need to move files from ORIGIN and place them to DESTINATION accordingly to the information contained in text file "toto.txt"
I do NOT know how to code the part which says:
place these files accordingly with the information contained in toto.txt which states
the sub-folder structure on DESTINATION folder"
toto.txt conatins the folder structure of ORIGIN and the files must be moved accordingly to DESTINATION but with the original folder structure location.
# My working Paths
MY_DIR1="/media/nss/MBVOL1/TEST/ORIGIN"
MY_DIR2="/media/nss/MBVOL1/TEST/DESTINATION"
# Flag files older than 1 day and list their name\full path to “TOTO” text file
echo "REPORT Created"
cd $MY_DIR1 && find . -mindepth 0 -maxdepth 40 -mtime +1 -type f > toto.txt
cp $MY_DIR1/toto.txt /$MY_DIR2
# Flag files older than 1 day then MOVE file to “DESTINATION” Folder
echo "FILES Moved"
find $MY_DIR1 -mindepth 0 -maxdepth 400 -type f -mtime +14 -exec mv '{}' $MY_DIR2 \;
Try this:
cd "$MY_DIR1"
# Duplicate directory structure
find . -type d -exec mkdir -p "$MY_DIR2"/{} \;
# move files older than 1 day
find . -type f -mtime +1 -exec mv {} "$MY_DIR2"/{} \;
You can combine them into one command:
find . -type d -exec mkdir -p "$MY_DIR2"/{} \; -o -type f -mtime +1 -exec mv {} "$MY_DIR2"/{} \;
Use something like this...
cat ${MY_DIR2}/toto.txt | while read FILE ; do
mv -v "${MY_DIR1}/${FILE}" "${MY_DIR2}"
done