copying/deleting directory and files since a time

[antonio92m]

Hello,

I was wondering if exist any command that I could use in a script where I want to copy/delete files and directories since a date. I know how to use commands such as
cp and rm but I don't know if there is any command that allows me directly to copy/erase since a time. The idea of this would be have a 1st hard drive where the data comes and leave it there for a time, after that erase all the content and copy it to another hard drive. So the 2nd hard drive has everything on it and the first only have the newest information.

I have done some scripts but nothing complicated. I'm asking here because I haven't found any command I could use for this.

Thanks beforehand,
Antonio

[pylkko]

like rsync? or like a snap shot?

http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/ ... or-Backups

Or perhaps snapshots on, say, btrfs?

[dilberts_left_nut]

Use 'find' to, well, find what you want and the '-exec' parameter to do something to it.

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man find

[kiyop]

Use 'find' to, well, find what you want and the '-exec' parameter to do something to it.

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man find

+1

Be careful for files the name of which contain special characters such as space " ' \ ( ) { }

"-print0 | xargs -0" is useful sometimes.

[cpoakes]

Re: find

Also take caution with the parameters to -mtime, the plus and minus may be counterintuitive.