Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:52:08 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backing up files newer than DATE with tar Message-ID: <9601121752.AA29545@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 1996 07:51:16 PST." <9601121551.AA01001@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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In message <9601121551.AA01001@iworks.InterWorks.org>, you write: > >I've been trying to back up files newer than a certain date with the >tar -N (--after, --newer) option. I am running 2.1 and have read >the manpages and --help options, but can't find what I'm doing >wrong. > >bash$ ls -l >total 10 >drwxr-xr-x 2 eghk other 512 Jan 12 10:45 . >drwxr-xr-x 31 eghk other 1024 Jan 12 10:45 .. >-rw-r--r-- 1 eghk other 6 Jan 12 10:45 junk1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 eghk other 6 Jan 12 10:45 junk2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 eghk other 6 Jan 12 10:45 junk3 >bash$ date Look on prep.ai.mit.edu for tar-1.11.9 -- it has a substantial manual... I stayed away from the date stuff until I could see how it was supposed to work... marty
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