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#1
September 13th, 2006, 05:48 PM
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Move 600 oldest files
In a kshell script, I need to move the 600 oldest files to another directory.
I can't seem to come up with a way to do this... is there a way to identify the number of files using ls? Should I ls to a file and then somehow use the line number inside the file to move the files? Ideas about how to do that? Thanks for any input. Stacy
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September 13th, 2006, 06:51 PM
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you need to use something like:
ls -t | sed -e "1,600" to give your list of file to move. Quote:
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September 14th, 2006, 03:24 AM
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Something like:
Code:
for file in $(ls -logtr | tail -600 | awk '{print $7}')
do
mv $file /dest/$file
done
But with more error checking (and ensuring that field 7 is the file name) will do it one file at a time. Or you could do something similar and send output to a file and then parse the file.
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