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YZMSQ

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From: Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China

Registered: 2009-11-18

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（solved）An easy question for you but not me...

Hi there
I don't know what's wrong with this:      find . -atime +3 | tar -czvf tarfile.tar.gz
PS: I want to write a simple script to find the files which haven't been visited for 3 days and compress them. 
Never laugh at me.....I'm just a beginner to learn shell.:/

Last edited by YZMSQ (2009-12-28 13:14:37)

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Procyon

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Re: （solved）An easy question for you but not me...

tar can read filenames from a file with -T where - will be stdin. So
find . -type f -atime +3 | tar cfz tar.tgz -T -

Note that find will print . without -type f or -mindepth 1, which would add everything at least once.

tlvb

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Re: （solved）An easy question for you but not me...

Another possibility is to use the xargs command to build a parameter string from stdin.

find . -name something | xargs tar -cf allsomethings.tar

Last edited by tlvb (2009-12-27 17:07:16)

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YZMSQ

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Re: （solved）An easy question for you but not me...

Thank you very much for your help!!!

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YZMSQ

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From: Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China

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Re: （solved）An easy question for you but not me...

But what's wrong with this command line: find . -atime +3 -ok tar -czvf tarfile.tar.gz {} \;
I need your help,please.

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PirateJonno

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Re: （solved）An easy question for you but not me...

But what's wrong with this command line: find . -atime +3 -ok tar -czvf tarfile.tar.gz {} \;
I need your help,please.

with that, tar -czvf will be executed lots of times, once for every file that matches the criteria. what you want is either a list of files to tar with one command, or to add individual files to an existing archive

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YZMSQ

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From: Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China

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Re: （solved）An easy question for you but not me...

thank you for your help!

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