I was searching for a bash command to move files and directories from a folder to another with modified in a specific date for ages on google until I gave up and decided to write it myself:
ls -l | awk '$6 == "2009-06-04" { print $8 }' | xargs -t -i mv {} /destination/folder
To understand what this line does, you need to know a bit about awk and xargs (try “man xargs” in your shell)
Explaination:
ls -l : directory listing
awk ‘$6 == “2009-06-04″ { print $8 } : take the files and dir with date 2009-06-04 and print the list
xargs -t -i mv {} /destination/folder : execute the mv command. {} is the result from the previous command.
I would like to explain you more, but I’m quite lazy and I leave you with google to undestand better the commands I’ve used.
Have fun!
