Fixing find is simple enough : find . -mtime -type f > <somefile>
Is there a problem with tar?
example: 
% find /tmp -mtime 1 -type f |tar cvf my.tar -
tar: can't add file - : No such file or directory

Well?

On Wed, Jul 8, 1998 5:09 AM, Torsten Schlueter <mailto:t.schlueter@gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to update my Homepage when i noticed that it is not
> possible (for me) to put only those files in an tar archive which were
> changed.
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
> t-rex://usr/local/httpd/htdocs/ #find . -mtime 1 -print
> 
> and the output were the files which are changed today.
> 
> trying 
> tar -cvzf webneu.tgz -T /tmp/webneu.files (after creating the file
> /tmp/webneu.files) or
> tar cf ~/webneu.tar `find . -mtime 1 -print`
> has the same result. The whole directory is added to the archive. 
> 
> Whats wrong with those commands?
> 

 
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