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 ?

Answer 1

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.