12-08-2006
gzip can only compress a single file. For a range of files (that is, an archive) you will require InfoZIP or an intermediate program to generate an archive file which can then be compressed using gzip.
With a little effort, you can use the find(1) command to generate a list of files for the desired date range.
For example, to find file that were modified between three and four weeks ago,
# find . -type f -mtime -29 -mtime +21
Or, find all files that were modified less than 29 days ago and more than 21 days ago. Try a few experiments to make certain you have the desired date range.
Either pipe it directly into zip(1),
# find . -type f -mtime -29 -mtime +21 | zip -@ 061110_061201.zip
or use the output as the file list for tar(1) and then pit into gzip:
# tar cvf - `find . -type f -mtime -29 -mtime +21` | gzip -c 1>061110_061201.tgz
To extract the gzip'd tarball,
# gunzip -c 061110_061201.tgz | tar xvf -
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blockdiag
BLOCKDIAG(1) General Commands Manual BLOCKDIAG(1)
NAME
blockdiag - generate block-diagram image file from spec-text file.
SYNOPSIS
blockdiag [options] file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the blockdiag commands.
blockdiag is a program that generate block-diagram image file from spec-text file.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the SEE ALSO.
--version
show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
Show summary of options
-a, --antialias
Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter
-c FILE, --config=FILE
read configurations from FILE
-o FILE
write diagram to FILE
-f FONT, --font=FONT
use FONT to draw diagram
--fontmap=FONT
use FONTMAP file to draw diagram
-s, --separate
Separate diagram images for each group
-T TYPE
Output diagram as TYPE format
--nodoctype
Do not output doctype definition tags (SVG only)
--no-transparency
do not make transparent background of diagram (PNG only)
SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by
http://tk0miya.bitbucket.org/blockdiag/build/html/index.html
AUTHOR
blockdiag was written by Takeshi Komiya <i.tkomiya@gmail.com>
This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
May 9, 2011 BLOCKDIAG(1)