moving directories/files based on creation date

[mwesticle]

I need to write a script that will look in a specific directory, and look at all of the subdirectories, and, based on creation date of the subdirectory, write all the subdirectories' files out to a list. I know how to write a script, I just need to know if the whole "mtime" command will work with directories, too. Or if there is a better way to do it. Anyone? Thanks for any advice.

 

[PHV]

Unix don't keep trace of creation time, but:

change time

the inode data has changed

modification time

the file data has changed

access time

the file data has been read
Do a

 man find

for -atime, -ctime and -mtime options.


Hope This Help
PH.

 

[mwesticle]

OK, so the "find" command will work. But then my main problem will be to get the find command to search through subdirectories when I don't know their names. For example, say I have three directories:

/testdir1/subdir1
/testdir1/subdir2
/testdir1/subdir3

How do I get the find command to list the appropriate files, based on age, contained within 'subdir1, 'subdir2', and 'subdir3', if I don't know these directories' names? Know what I mean???

 

[PHV]

The command

 find /testdir1 -type f -mtime +7

will recursively descends the directory hierarchy for /testdir1.

Hope This Help
PH.