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04-01-2009

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Basically it should be no problem. Maybe depending which version of tar you use. I am on Debian using GNU tar for this example:

Code:

$> find . -type d -name "dir[0-9]"
./dir1
./dir2
$> tar cvf bla.tar `find . -type d -name "dir[0-9]" -print`
./dir1/
./dir1/subdir1/
./dir1/.ssh/
./dir1/.ssh/somekey
./dir1/subdir2/
./dir2/
./dir2/subdir1/
./dir2/subdir2/
$> tar tvf bla.tar
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/subdir1/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/.ssh/
-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/.ssh/somekey
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/subdir2/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:38 ./dir2/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir2/subdir1/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir2/subdir2/

Make sure that your is showing the files you want, ie. maybe write it like this

Code:

# 1st:
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print
# If output is the files you want, 2nd:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f -print`

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SYNOPSIS

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