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I need a way to search from a base folder, all the folders inside of that one recursively, and find all photos of JPG and PNG that were created before a certain date (01.Feb.2013) and then move them to a particular folder.
How would I go about this?
mdfind seems to ignore a lot of hidden files. mdfind 'kMDItemFSInvisible==1&&kMDItemFSName==filename' does list .DS_Store files, but not for example .bash_history. I haven't found any way to search for files in some hidden directories like /private/etc/.
Anyway, Find Any File is a lot faster than find.
Find Any File is a program for Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.
- Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations, where available. This lets you search for file properties such as name, dates, size, etc., but not for file content (use Spotlight or EasyFind for that).
- Find Any File can find files that Spotlight doesn't, e.g. those inside bundles and packages and in inside folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search.
- Finally, it is quite fast. A search only takes a few seconds on an internal hard disk or SSD. Try for yourself!
You can also use rsync -R (--relative) or --parents in GNU cp:
rsync -R */*/*.RNav.jpg /path/to/target
gcp --parents */*/*RNav.jpg /path/to/target
find . -name \*RNav.jpg -exec rsync -R {} /path/to/target \;
find . -name \*RNav.jpg -exec gcp --parents {} /path/to/target \;
Best Answer
You could use
find:touch -tnormally changes only the modification and access times, but it also changes the creation time if the target time is before the original creation time or when you are creating a new file.-Bnewer(for birth time / creation time) is not supported by GNU/Linux platforms which don't have metadata for the creation time.The parentheses are needed because
-a(and concatenating expressions without-a) has higher precedence than-o.