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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find most recent files in dirs and tar them up? Post 302304371 by bobdung on Monday 6th of April 2009 09:22:45 AM
Old 04-06-2009
Think i worked it out - for my purposes anyways..

for DIR in `find /MyDir/MyPath -type d`
do
find $DIR -type f -mtime -99 |tail -1 |xargs tar uf /tmp/TMPtar.tar
done
 

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GVPECTRL(8)						   GNU Virtual Private Ethernet 					       GVPECTRL(8)

NAME
gvpectrl - GNU Virtual Private Ethernet Control Program SYNOPSIS
gvpectrl [-ckgs] [--config=DIR] [--generate-keys] [--help] [--kill[=SIGNAL]] [--show-config] [--version] DESCRIPTION
This is the control program for the gvpe, the virtual private ethernet daemon. OPTIONS
-c, --config=DIR Read configuration options from DIR. -g, --generate-keys Generate public/private RSA key-pair and exit. -q, --quiet Suppresses messages the author finds nonessential for scripting purposes. --help Display short list of options. --kill[=SIGNAL] Attempt to kill a running gvpectrl (optionally with the specified SIGNAL instead of SIGTERM) and exit. --show-config Show a summary of the configuration, and how gvpe interprets it. Can also be very useful when designing firewall scripts. --version Output version information and exit. BUGS
If you find any bugs, report them to gvpe@schmorp.de. SEE ALSO
gvpe(5), gvpe.conf(5), gvpe(8). GVPE comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details. AUTHOR
Marc Lehmann <gvpe@schmorp.de>. 2.2 2008-09-01 GVPECTRL(8)
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