From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 16:42:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2663116A401 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:42:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D440913C455 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:42:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2FGg6t8063548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:42:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id l2FGg6Hs063547; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:42:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:42:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Martin McCormick Message-ID: <20070315164206.GP2435@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200703151623.l2FGNOII040982@dc.cis.okstate.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703151623.l2FGNOII040982@dc.cis.okstate.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:42:08 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 15), Martin McCormick said: > I am transfering all our working group files from a > FreeBSD5.3 platform to a bigger, faster and FreeBSD6.2 system. > I discovered that bsdtar on the 5.3 system doesn't appear to > have the --newer-than feature in which you only archive files > newer than either a given date or a reference file such as the > last monster tar ball from, say, /usr/home. [..] > Will either freetar or gtar give me the capability to > use a reference file to only get the new files that have either > appeared or changed since yesterday? gtar has the --newer and --newer-mtime options, which should suffice for what you need. You could also build the latest bsdtar from http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ , but since you just need it for this one operation, building gtar from ports is probably easier. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com