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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
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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

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