Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:27:09 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Change tar to GNU Message-ID: <20050218092709.GM8471@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <86is4qfenb.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050217192913.38170c-100000@fledge.watson.org> <4214F3C2.4020102@alumni.rice.edu> <20050217195547.GA33893@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <86is4qfenb.fsf@xps.des.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:36:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: > > find $PATH -newermt 20050214 | xargs tar cf new.tar > > Bad idea, for a number of different reasons (including file names > containing spaces or other special characters, and command line length > limits). The following is slightly better, but will still fail if you > have files with newlines in them: > > find $PATH -newermt 2005-02-14 | tar -c -f new.tar -T/dev/stdin Won't find -print0 | xargs -0 ... work in all cases? --Stijn -- I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work." -- Gallagher [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFbTtY3r/tLQmfWcRAizyAJwPc7YEVqIHomqGZ/XyP2LDzZxQnwCfVu7a 8h1ewCEUmrzZlROe1D854i4= =cnK3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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