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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Selective tar-ing... Date: 12 Sep 1994 21:06:50 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 16 Message-ID: <352fta$f0@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <34u3h4$c9l@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <34u3h4$c9l@sundog.tiac.net>, Brian McGovern <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> wrote: >I was wondering if there was a way to have tar archive only files that have >changed since a certain date, or that have been modified since a >prior tar-ing. Sure. Grab the latest version of GNU tar, and take a look at the back scripts included therein. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant