Fanatical Solutions

find .  -type f -daystart -mtime -10 -exec ls -l {} \; | cpio -pdmv /output/data

find /var/web/public_html  -type f -daystart -mtime -10 | cpio -pdmv /output/data

I have given an explanation of each flag used in the above command as well.

• find , linux command
• . & /home/web1/public_html , specifies the directory to search, in this case the website document root
• -type f , will only search for files and not directories
• -daystart , will tell find to start with today date
• -mtime, tells find to include every thing that was modified on and before a twenty fours hour period
• | , will redirect the output to another binary, in this instance cpio
• cpio, Creates and un-creates archived cpio files. And also is capable of copying files to things other than a hard disk.
• -pdmv,
  1. -p pass trough (copy in and out)
  2. -d make dirs
  3. -m preserve modification time
  4. -v verbose
• /root/test, is the output directory

For moving the files we can use the below command

find . -name '*.bak' -exec mv '{}' backup_dir/ \;

This would move every file found into backup_dir/.