#!/bin/bash

# create a backup folder in the data directory where you want to recover files, go into the backup folder, and have dir data in same parent dir

SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

find ../data -type f -newermt '1 Feb' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file
do
  dir=`dirname "$file"`
  #filename=`basename "$file"`

  # dir new without going out two points
  dir_new=${dir:3}

  mkdir -p "$dir_new" 

  echo "duplicating $file with its directory.." 

  cp -p "$file" "$dir_new"
  
  # also touch does the -p option, but better -p
  #touch -r "$file" "$dir_new/$filename"
    

done