problem with using find and tar together
 

Hi, what I have been trying to do is tar up all the files that were touched in the last 24 hours into a single file. Seems simple right?

sohpsy211:/respaldo # find /home/am0032/ -mtime 0


found all the files as expected... but as soon as I did this ....

sohpsy211:/respaldo # find /home/am0032/ -mtime 0 | tar zcvf /respaldo/today.tgz -T-

Then the input from the find command was ignored and the entire contents of /home/am0032/ starts to get tarred up.

Any ideas why? Or how to get around this?

Many thanks for any assistance.

Adam

try this:

This isn't tested so I'm not sure if it will work.

HTH,

Centinul

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

Chances are it is working. But if any file in /home/am0032/
has an mtime of 0, so will /home/am0032; hence it will all
be tarred up. What happens if you add -type f to the find?



Cheers,
Tink

Not only files but directories too, including the topmost one as you are missing the "-type f" option.
The input wasn't ignored.
If there aren't too much files, you can run this:
For a more robust solution, that one should work:

thanx a lot
 

the type f thing fixed it all :)

Glad we're not one of the worlds best Linux support
sites for nothing ;}


Cheers,
Tink