Copying & Moving Files efficiently with xargs

How to move and/or copy a subset of files from one directory

 

eg 1 zip files older than 10 days

find . -type f -name '*.trc' -mtime +10 | xargs tar -cvzf bdump_$(date +%Y%m%d).gz.tar --remove-files

From time to time I need to move and/or copy a subset of files from one directory to another

#-- delete find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs -i rm {}  #-- COPY find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs -I '{}' cp {} /some/other/directory  #-- MOVE find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs -I '{}' mv {} /some/other/directory

 

It is very easy to compress a Whole Linux/UNIX directory. It is useful to backup files, email all files, or even to send software you have created to friends. Technically, it is called as a compressed archive. GNU tar command is best for this work. It can be use on remote Linux or UNIX server. It does two things for you:
=> Create the archive
=> Compress the archive

You need to use tar command as follows (syntax of tar command):

tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name