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Find files modified between 2 dates from Source directory(Recursively) and copy it into the Target directory with same directory structure

Amala

1/22/23, 9:43 AM

I am trying to copy the files from source to Target folder which has been modified between 2 dates,

#!/usr/bin/ksh

source=/home/Amal/DELTA/SOURCE

target=/home/Amal/DELTA/TARGET

cd $source

find ./ -type f -newermt "2021-07-08 00:00:00" ! -newermt "2021-09-18 23:59:55" -printf "%h:%p:\0" |

while IFS=":" read path file; do

cp "$file" "$target"/"$path"

done

NOTE: Source and directory is having same directory structure already. I just need to copy the files as same as SOURCE directory.

When i execute this script no changes in TARGET folder.

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steeldriver

1/22/23, 10:02 AM

You are piping null-delimited data into the loop, but afaik ksh's `read` expects newline-delimited data by default

Amala

1/22/23, 11:24 AM

@Steeldriver - Even after removing the \0 from the find command no changes. The files are not copied to TARGET.

steeldriver

1/22/23, 12:41 PM

@Amala you would need to **replace** `\0` with `\n` in the `printf` - or switch to bash where `read -d ''` can be used to read null-delimited "lines"

Amala

1/22/23, 1:09 PM

@steeldriver - Thank you so much. Replacing \0 with \n worked.

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vanadium

1/22/23, 10:29 AM

One way could be to use rsync with the --include-from-file option. rsync is a versatile file copy utility that will by default copy directory structures. With the --include-from-file option, you can point rsync to a list, a text file, that determines the files that should be included in the copy. Such list can be created with the find command.

So first run the find to locate the desired files and list them in a text file. Then use rsync to only copy these files over. Easy to script once you got it working, obviously.

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Amala

1/22/23, 11:19 AM

rsync is not available in our application server(Linux Server).

vanadium

1/22/23, 12:37 PM

That is quite important information that you may want to add to your question. Use "edit". I will leave the answer up because a vast majority of users will be able to install and use rsync.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Find files modified between 2 dates from Source directory(Recursively) and copy it into the Target directory with same directory structure

TH: ค้นหาไฟล์ที่แก้ไขระหว่าง 2 วันที่จากไดเร็กทอรีต้นทาง (เรียกซ้ำ) และคัดลอกไปยังไดเร็กทอรีเป้าหมายที่มีโครงสร้างไดเร็กทอรีเดียวกัน

RO: Găsiți fișiere modificate între 2 date din directorul sursă (recursiv) și copiați-le în directorul țintă cu aceeași structură de directoare

RU: Найдите файлы, измененные между двумя датами, из исходного каталога (рекурсивно) и скопируйте их в целевой каталог с той же структурой каталогов.

VI: Tìm các tệp được sửa đổi giữa 2 ngày từ thư mục Nguồn (Đệ quy) và sao chép tệp đó vào thư mục Đích có cùng cấu trúc thư mục

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