Copying the files based on modification date in linux

Question

It may be a duplicate question but i could not find the solution for this i want to copy a last 3 months files from one directory to another directory but i could find only to l

Answer 1

I guess I would first store the list of files temporarily and use a loop.

find . -mtime -90 -ls >/tmp/copy.todo.txt

You can read the list, if it is not too big, with

for f in `cat /tmp/copy.todo.txt`;
do echo $f;
done

Note: the quotes around cat... are backquotes, often in upper left corner of keyboard

You can then replace the echo command with a copy command:

for f in `cat /tmp/copy.todo.txt`;
do cp $f /some/directory/
done