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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: format for tar date argument? Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:02:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4d6p9j$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ccm5m$27f@osprey.unf.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy) writes: > I need to tar a directory tree with only the files modified in the last > hour. I can't figure out the format of the date argument to tar to do > this. I've looked at the man page and it doesn't explain it. I've also > tried formats from several other commands (e.g. date) and no joy. Not for tar, but for cpio, one of the possible ways is: touch -t MMDDhhss /tmp/reference with MMDDhhss being the reference time, and then find /dir -newer /tmp/reference -print | cpio -o -Hcrc > /path/archive.cpio (You could even supply ``-Hustar'' to have cpio generating a tar archive.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)