Subject: Re: Tar and Find Problem
To: Torsten Schlueter <t.schlueter@gmx.de>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/09/1998 09:18:46
> 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?


Add  --norecurse options to tar command line (default is archiving the
contents of directories).

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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