How to loop through multiple folder and subfolders and remove file name start with abc.txt and 14 days old

Question

I have folder and subfolder. I need to loop through each folder and subfolder and remove or move the file names which start with abc.txt and 14 days old to temporary folder. My

Answer 1

You want to find files: -type f
that start with abc.txt: -name "abc.txt*"
that are 14 days old: -mtime +14
and move them to a dir.: -exec mv {} /tmp \;
and to see what moved: -print

So the final command is:

find . -type f -name "abc.txt*" -mtime +14 -exec mv {} /tmp \; -print

Adjust the directory as required.

Note that mtime is the modification time. So it is 14 days old since the last modification was done to it.

Note 2: the {} in the -exec is replaced by each filename found.

Note 3: \; indicates the termination of the command inside the -exec

Note 4: find will recurse into sub-directories anyway. No need to list the directories and loop on them again.