Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System.

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Thu Mar 15 18:35:04 UTC 2007


On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:23:24AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	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?

There's always find+cpio if you're interested.

    find /what/ever -mtime -1 -print | cpio -o -H ustar > file.tar

Cheers.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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