Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:00:49 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Change tar to GNU Message-ID: <42162D51.6020304@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050217195547.GA33893@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050217192913.38170c-100000@fledge.watson.org> <4214F3C2.4020102@alumni.rice.edu> <20050217195547.GA33893@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:42:58PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > >>I think the issue is simply that the --newer option does not exist in >>bsdtar. A very brief glance at the bsdtar man page didn't reveal any >>replacement > > This is a Unix-like OS, so command pipes are possible. > > find $PATH -newermt 20050214 | xargs tar cf new.tar Somewhat better: find $PATH -newermt 20050215 -print0 | tar -c -f new.tar -T - --null Some people are more familiar with -I (which is a synonym for -T). Hmmm... Looks like --null never got onto the manpage. I'll fix that. This should solve Kaspar's problem. Tim
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