From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 09:53:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA24238 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:53:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA24232 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15438(13)>; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:52:40 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12731; Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:52:10 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29545; Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:52:08 EST Message-Id: <9601121752.AA29545@gnu.mc.xerox.com> To: "Daniel M. Eischen" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backing up files newer than DATE with tar In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 1996 07:51:16 PST." <9601121551.AA01001@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:52:08 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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