Move files older than day

Question

I am looking for some solution, where I have to move all the directories and files under the source directory to the destination a day before. I want to move the directories till yesterday but not today’s.

find  /temp/source/* -mtime +1 -exec mv -t /temp/destination/ {} \;

Answer 1

You need daystart if you want to catch all files up to yesterday 23:59 o'clock:

Measure times (for -amin, -atime, -cmin, -ctime, -mmin, and -mtime) from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago. This option only affects tests which appear later on the command line.

Example:

find /temp/source/* -daystart -mtime +0

Or of you want all files only of today

find /temp/source/* -daystart -mtime 0

Or all files only of yesterday

find /temp/source/* -daystart -mtime 1

You can even define a specific range of days like all files of yesterday and the day before yesterday:

find /temp/source/* -daystart -mtime +0 -mtime -3

PS You should consider -mindepth 1 instead of globbing (*) the subdirectories to find.