Date: 17 Jun 2004 15:31:45 +0100 From: Richard Caley <rjc@caley.org.uk> To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Means of traversing a directory Message-ID: <87acz2b6i6.fsf@pele.r.caley.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200406170909.37669.fbsd-questions@trini0.org> References: <200406170909.37669.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
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In article <200406170909.37669.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>, Gerard Samuel (gs) writes:
gs> Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the
gs> --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date.
gs> Unfortunately, it also creates unwanted "empty" directories.
Have you tried using find?
If a relative time is good enough
find DIR -type f -mtime -6
if you need to specify a time and date, I think the only way is to use
touch to makea file at the right date then use find's -newer test.
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