tarring large no. of files

marwan · #1 (**permalink**) 08-19-2007

dears,
I have a folder containing huge no. of files, some of them are created on AUG 16, AUG 17 and AUG 18, for example.
All I want to do is tarring all the files created on a certain date, say AUG 18, in one tar file, only in one command line.
So, how to feed all the files created on a certain date to the tar command, provided that I don't want to use a for loop, I just want 1 command line.

can the (find) command be helpfull,

Thanks, so much,for your usual support,
Marwan

kamitsin · #2 (**permalink**) 08-19-2007

Yuu are on the right track, you can use find

marwan · #3 (**permalink**) 08-19-2007

thanks man, i know that i am on the right track, but i need more help than that

kamitsin · #4 (**permalink**) 08-19-2007

Code:

find . -type f -mtime XX| xargs tar -cvf marwan.tar

marwan · #5 (**permalink**) 08-19-2007

thanks kamitsin for your fast response, but execuse me as i am a liitle new with that.
the option -mtime specifies the time as a multiple of 24 hours, and don't specify the whole day as i want, and i think the results will not be the same.
Second, what does the command xargs mean exactly, i did'nt get it form the man.

thanks alot

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