From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jun 16 16:01:22 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F117516A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:01:22 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B450043D45
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:01:22 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from fbsd-questions@trini0.org)
Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (trini0.org[65.34.205.195])
          by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP
          id <200406161545220160087i4se>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:45:22 +0000
Received: from gladiator.trini0.org (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.3])
	by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D6E961B2; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:45:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:45:21 -0400
User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2
References: <200406151637.04727.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
	<200406152252.35712.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
	<443c4v8x5n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <443c4v8x5n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200406161145.21596.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
cc: jmason@cs.hmc.edu
Subject: Re: Resulting difference between 2 directories
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:01:23 -0000

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:12 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

You are absolutely correct.
Thanks