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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?

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You could use find:

touch -t 201302010000 /tmp/a
find ~/directory \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png \) -Bnewer /tmp/a \
    -exec mv {} ~/directory2 \;

touch -t normally 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.

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  • Thank you very much. I had an answer, but I couldn't see how to string it together. This is better and succinct. I like it. Thank you very much for the explanation too!
    – Danijel-James W
    Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 1:32
  • Very clever, as always.
    – beroe
    Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 5:22

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