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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tar creating copies of files Post 302673763 by jrymer on Wednesday 18th of July 2012 11:01:38 AM
Old 07-18-2012
Tar creating copies of files
I am trying to archive directories based on their last modified date. When I tar and compress the directory it makes copies of whats inside, I don't know how to fix this.

Here is my code.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
#AUTODRUNDISABLE
VERSION="0.2"

cd /desired/directory/to/archive
find . -type d -newermt 2012-06-01 ! -newermt 2012-06-30 | tar -zcvf tar.tar.gz

I made a test directory because the actual directories I will be working with are massive and so to same time in compression I created /test/sub_dir/test.txt.

When I run my script this is what it compresses.
./test/
./test/sub_dir/
./test/sub_dir/test.txt
./test/sub_dir/
./test/sub_dir/test.txt

Why am I getting copies?

Also I'm on Ubuntu 12.04
 

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