In the last episode (Mar 15), Martin McCormick said: > I am transfering all our working group files from a > FreeBSD5.3 platform to a bigger, faster and FreeBSD6.2 system. > I discovered that bsdtar on the 5.3 system doesn't appear to > have the --newer-than feature in which you only archive files > newer than either a given date or a reference file such as the > last monster tar ball from, say, /usr/home. [..] > 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?
gtar has the --newer and --newer-mtime options, which should suffice for what you need. You could also build the latest bsdtar from http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ , but since you just need it for this one operation, building gtar from ports is probably easier. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
