I need help in creating a script, or if there is command that would move all files from a directory if the time stamp for the file is less than 24hrs. It would be great if there were a command like sort/move files from today to $PATH. Thanks -ST

Do you want to move/copy the files to another directory if they're less then 24hours or remove them all together?

Let's cover how to find the files:

A common method for finding files created just today is to create a file at midnight, and use find's -newer option:

# find files modified on 03/30 to the current time
touch -t 200703300000 /tmp/neweroptionfile

find mydir -type f -newer /tmp/neweroptionfile -print

The above find command returns only files with a modification time after
midnight on 03/30/2007.

You can use the same method to find files modified within a given date range:

# find files modified in the first quarter of 2007
touch -t 200701010000 /tmp/newerstart
touch -t 200703312359 /tmp/newerend

find tmp \( -newer /tmp/newerstart -a \! -newer /tmp/newerend \) -print

The above command finds all files modified after the date of 'newerstart' and
not newer than 'newerend'.

Thanks for your help in explaining this. I will give try it out.

ST