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Recent content by arwon
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Using find to return filenames in quotes
Using find and tar together can lead to trouble if the directory has nested sub-directories. find will write-out each qualifying file once - but it will also write-out each parent directory. tar will archive the qualifying file once for the file "entry" - and again for every...- arwon
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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tarring files from a list that was created with the find command
nwo4life ... find and tar are an awkward mixture! Basically, this is what you want: find /dir/test/* -mtime +90 -print > backlist find /dir/testb/* -mtime +90 -print >>backlist tar cvf backlist.$(date +%d-%b-%Y).tar -I backlist HOWEVER - you will have trouble! find will write-out an entry...- arwon
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
