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The following is checking for any folder in the path that is more than 1 day old and matches the name criteria. If found, the folder is then moved to the 'trash' folder. 

find /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/websites/testwebsite.co.uk -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +1 -name '[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' -exec mv {} /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/trash \;

I need to modify the foldername, to include '_renamed' at the end.

I thought that I could use the curly braces from mv, but now realise this takes the full folder path as well. 

find /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/websites/testwebsite.co.uk -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +1 -name '[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' -exec mv {} /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/trash/{}_renamed \;

Is there any way that I can modify the folder path without copying the path as well?

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Yes, find works with pathnames, not filenames.

There are two immediate solutions:

  1. You could extract the filename portion of the pathname, and use that in the destination pathname used by mv.

    find /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/websites/testwebsite.co.uk \
    -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +1 \
    -name '[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' \
    -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "/Users/myname/Desktop/backups/trash/${1##*/}_renamed"' sh {} ';'

    Here, ${1##*/} is the same as $( basename "$1" ), and $1 is the pathname given to the sh -c script by find.

  2. You could use -execdir in place of -exec if your find implementation supports it. With -execdir, the given command is executed in the parent folder of the found item, and {} will be either the basename of the item (with BSD find) or the basename prefixed by ./ (with GNU find).

    find /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/websites/testwebsite.co.uk \
    -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +1 \
    -name '[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' \
    -execdir mv {} /Users/myname/Desktop/backups/trash/{}_renamed ';'

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