From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ACario Subject: Re: Zipping files listed in a file Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:01:16 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <20041019.18S.00273900@192.168.0.6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041019.18S.00273900@192.168.0.6> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs