"find" command

[Chet Woods]

Hi all,
I'm having problems with using the "find" command. What I'm trying to do is find everything older than 520 days, and create a tar file with this data, however what I'm getting is a listing (like it would do when creating a tar file) but, the tar file is only the very last file that is listed. Here's my find statement:
find . -mtime +520 -exec tar xvf /home/rlkeller.tar {} \;

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chet

[Kevin Wright]

maybe tar cvf.

use xargs too
find . -mtime +520 |xargs tar cvf tar.ball

[Chet Woods]

yeah, oops I meant tar cvf. xargs, what does that do?

[Craig Rants]

I would do it in two parts, but that is just me.

1) find . -mtime +520 -exec ls {} \; > /tmp/tar.sh

2) edit /tmp/tar.sh and put
tar cvf /home/rlkeller.tar /file1 /file2
and so on, make sure you put a \ after each line in the file, you could use sed to do this. Then run /tmp/tar.sh

Also I noticed in you find command that you were using xvf instead of cvf, that may be causing you some problems.

GL,
C

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try substituting 'xvf' with 'cvf'

and using xargs it processes the information far better. Using -exec uses one process for each input, xargs uses one for the lot, basically it is more efficient, but one drawback, it it does not find anything that it 'parsed' to it, it will backup everything!

# find . -mtime +520 -exec cvf /tmp/test {} \;
# find . -mtime +520 | xargs tar cvf /dev/test


HTH
-Michael

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Try this:

# find . -mtime +520 | xargs tar xvf /home/rlkeller.tar

Regards!

...JRF...

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Chet,

This will work:
find . -mtime +520 | xargs tar cvf /home/rlkeller.tar

Darrell

[Darrell Allen]

Dang, always slower than James (and Michael many times also)!

N/A mine, please.

Darrell

[Chet Woods]

Thanks everyone, this worked:

find . -mtime +520 | xargs tar cvf /home/rlkeller.tar


Thanks again,
Chet