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 \;
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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.
I want to copy all the files from a folder which is more than x days old to a new path.
Source folder structure:
/opt/install/sw1/team/p2.csv
/opt/install/sw2/team/p2.csv
Destination should be:
/work/backup/sw1/team/p2.csv
/work/backup/sw2/team/p2.csv
Will this do:
mkdir /work/backup/sw1/team
find /opt/install/sw1/team -maxdepth 0 -mtime +5 -exec cp '{}' /work/backup/sw1/team \;
mkdir /work/backup/sw2/team
find /opt/install/sw2/team -maxdepth 0 -mtime +5 -exec cp '{}' /work/backup/sw2/team \;
If I understand correctly:
cp -a /opt/install/sw1 /opt/install/sw2
Or for verbose:
cp -av /opt/install/sw1 /opt/install/sw2
-a says to copy everything and preserve permissions. If this is not what you want, then -r might be more appropriate.
I'm trying to copy all files from a folder that start with a capital letter into another folder.
So far i've used the find command to actually find the files
find /examplefolder -type f -name "[[:upper:]]*"
and i'm able to find them no problem
I tried to just replace the find command with cp and that does not work then i tried to pipe into the cp command and I failed yet again
Use the -exec option for find
find /examplefolder -type f -name "[[:upper:]]*" -exec cp {} /my/new/shiny/folder/ \;
I was able to do it by piping in to cp with xargs and the -I argument
find /examplefolder -type f -name "[[:upper:]]*" | xargs -I % cp % /copied_directory
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 have a project in Linux. I want to create a file named index.html in all folders.
So I have used the following command:
find . -type d -exec touch {}/index.html \;
It's working! Now I'm trying to copy the existing file from a given location and it to be automatically replaced into all the folders of my project.
This should actually work exactly in the same way:
find . -type d -exec cp $sourcedir/index.html {}/index.html \;
If I understand your question correctly, what you want is to copy a given file in all the directories.
You can use a similar find command :
find . -type d -exec cp -f /tmp/index.html {} \;
where /tmp/index.html is path to the original file (replace it with your own path).
Also, you don't need to create the files if your final objective is to replace them with the original file.
tar -cvzf index.tar.gz `find . -type f -iname 'index.html'` && scp index.tar.gz USER#SERVER:/your/projec/root/on/SERVER && ssh USER#SERVER "tar -xvzf index.tar.gz"
Or if you're in the proper directory localhost, and rsync is available:
rsync -r --exclude='**' --include='**/index.html' . USER#SERVER:/your/projec/root/on/SERVER
HTH