Date: 25 Oct 2003 10:57:04 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: tar & find Message-ID: <44wuatqsan.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031025075322.GA65979@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200310250833.17091.479001601@mail.ru> <EC1E2E7A-06A8-11D8-B94B-000393801C60@g-it.ca> <20031025075322.GA65979@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> > Thanks for the response, but what would be a better solution?
>
> There are several possibilities, all of which equate to passing the
> list of files to backup to the tar command (or equivalent) via stdin
> rather than the command line. Perhaps the simplest is to use the '-I'
> or '-T' flag to tar(1):
>
> find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname '*.bak' -print0 | \
> tar --remove-files --null -T - \
> -cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_`date +%F`.tar.gz
>
> Other possibilities would include using cpio(1), which can be
> persuaded to emit tar format archives, or to build a perl backup
> script based around the File::Find and Archive::Tar modules.
Or passing the date in an environment variable.
I think something like
datestamp=`date +%F`
find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname '*.bak' -print0 | \
tar --remove-files --null -T - \
-cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_${datestamp}.tar.gz
should work.
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