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Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> writes:

> On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:04 pm, Julian M. Mason wrote:
> > Given that, though, half an hour with a {python, perl, php, shell, etc}
> > {book, website}  will probably produce a better result.
> >
> 
> So I thought.  I'll start getting my thoughts together for the code.

I think that (Gnu) tar with an option to only pick up files since a
given timestamp would do this fairly easily.  Of course, it is also
probably a five-line shell script.