From: ACario <acario@wanadoo.fr>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Zipping files listed in a file
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:01:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cl3rsr$hb6$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041019.18S.00273900@192.168.0.6>
Oops, I guess I've increased the counter of
newbies-who-peruse-man-pages-a-bit-too-quickly before asking for help...
Danke sehr Robin!
ACario
> ACario (acario@wanadoo.fr) schrieb:
>
>>Hi,
>>For backup purpose, I'd like to zip all files of a folder that have been
>>modified or created since a given date. I get the wanted list files by
>>running "find myrep -anewer aFileWithGivenDate". Now how can I pass this
>>list of files to the "zip" compresser?
>>Thanks in advance for your help,
>>ACario
>
>
> Hey!
>
> Copied from the manpage (http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/manuals/man/zip.html)
>
> If the file list is specified as -@, [Not on MacOS] zip takes the list of
> input files from standard input. Under UNIX, this option can be used to
> powerful effect in conjunction with the find(1) command. For example, to
> archive all the C source files in the current directory and its
> subdirectories:
>
> find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | zip source -@
>
> This should be exactly what you want!
>
> Bye,
> Robin
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-18 22:00 Zipping files listed in a file ACario
2004-10-19 9:24 ` Robin Doer
2004-10-19 20:01 ` ACario [this message]
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