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Old 07-09-2010
TARing multiple files at once
Hi guys, I'm trying to write a quick script to archive off some data once a week. So far I have got;

Code:
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
TARFILE=${DATE}.tar

for file in `find /usr/local/DATA/in -mtime +6`; do tar -czvf ${TARFILE} ${file}; done

The problem I have is it is going through the results of the find command and creating the same tar file for each of the results. Effectively replacing what was already added because I am using the "-c" option, so creating a new tar each time.

I guess what I need to do is create the new tar with the first result of the find command using the "-c" option and then for every other result using the "-r" which would ADD new files to an existing tar, does that make sense?

Does anyone know how I could go about doing so?

Any help would be great Smilie

Thanks!
JayC89
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Old 07-09-2010
You could redirect the find output to a file ( >> outfile ) and then hand over this file as include list for tar. So there is only 1 tar run in the end.
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Old 07-09-2010
Never though about that! Thanks for the quick reply!! Smilie
JayC89
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