archiving

[Amir Fadaghi]

Has anybody used find with xargs and tar to archive find that have been modified within last 7 days? I appreciate the help

thanks

[Peggy Fong]

Hi

I've seen this done but I can't fully remember the command. I thought it was something like:

find /{path} -mtime +7|xargs tar -cvf archive -

This is assuming that I remember correctly that tar will take standard input (-)

Should be easy to test.

Good Luck.
Check man on find - there may be a tar command in the example section that you can use to do what you want with modification.

Peggy

[Alan Riggs · Accepted solution]

find {PATH} -type f -mtime -7 | xargs tar cvf {ARCHIVE}

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

See: http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x7e9e0cb17a32d5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html