Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:42:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System. Message-ID: <20070315164206.GP2435@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200703151623.l2FGNOII040982@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200703151623.l2FGNOII040982@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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In the last episode (Mar 15), Martin McCormick said: > I am transfering all our working group files from a > FreeBSD5.3 platform to a bigger, faster and FreeBSD6.2 system. > I discovered that bsdtar on the 5.3 system doesn't appear to > have the --newer-than feature in which you only archive files > newer than either a given date or a reference file such as the > last monster tar ball from, say, /usr/home. [..] > Will either freetar or gtar give me the capability to > use a reference file to only get the new files that have either > appeared or changed since yesterday? gtar has the --newer and --newer-mtime options, which should suffice for what you need. You could also build the latest bsdtar from http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ , but since you just need it for this one operation, building gtar from ports is probably easier. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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