------------------------------------------------------------------------ find newer files ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anindya Ganguly posed the following problem "After simulations, how to move modified files to a different folder?" $ touch {1..3}.txt #create files $ sl; sl #procrastinate $ touch {a..c}.txt #create new files Now identify the latest file. It can be done automatically but also by hand. Say this file is "3.txt" $ find * -newer 3.txt #list all files "newer" than 3.txt a.txt b.txt c.txt Now we wish to move this to another directory. So let us first create this directory $ mkdir ../newfiles $ mv $(find * -newer 3.txt) ../newfiles