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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:23:24AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	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?

There's always find+cpio if you're interested.

    find /what/ever -mtime -1 -print | cpio -o -H ustar > file.tar

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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