bash scripting improvement

Question

I have created the following script that move old days files as defined from source directory to destination directory. It is working perfectly.

#!/bin/bash

echo "Enter Your Source Directory"
read soure

echo "Enter Your Destination Directory"
read destination 

echo "Enter Days"
read days



 find "$soure" -type f -mtime "-$days" -exec mv {} "$destination" \;

  echo "Files which were $days Days old moved from $soure to $destination"

This script moves files great, but It also move files of source subdirectory, that I don't want. it should not take subdirectory files. How can I do that ?

dogbane · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-21 15:56:29Z

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Add -maxdepth 1 to your find command so that it doesn't not go into sub-directories.

From the find man page:

-maxdepth levels
    Descend  at  most  levels (a non-negative integer) levels of directories below the command line arguments.

answered Dec 21, 2012 at 15:56

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KK Patel Over a year ago

My find command should find -maxdepth 1 "$soure" -type f -mtime "-$days" -exec mv {} "$destination" \; or something ????

KK Patel Over a year ago

not working gives following error find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.

dogbane Over a year ago

Try: find "$soure" -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime "-$days" -exec mv {} "$destination" \;

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